Eco 316 week 1 chapter 4 interest rates and rates of return

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This paperwork of ECO 316 Week 1 Chapter 4 Interest Rates
and Rates of Return consists of:
4.1 Multiple Choice Questions
1) When you place your funds in a savings account at a bank,
those funds are
2) Debt instruments are also called
3) A debt instrument represents
4) Simple loans and discount bonds differ from coupon bonds
and fixed-payment loans in that
5) Issuers of coupon bonds
6) A simple loan involves
7) The amount of funds the borrower receives from the
lender with a simple loan is called the
8) The total payment to a lender for a simple loan is
9) Suppose First National Bank makes a one-year simple loan
of $1,000 at 7% interest to Harry's Restaurant. At the end of
one year Harry's Restaurant will pay First National
10) Suppose First National Bank makes a one-year simple
loan of $1000 to Harry's Restaurant. If at the end of one year
Harry's Restaurant pays First National $1400, then the
interest rate on this loan must have been
11) The most common type of simple loan is a(an)
12) A discount bond resembles a simple loan in that
13) A discount bond involves
14) Which of the following is NOT a discount bond?
15) Suppose Matt's Cars issues a one-year discount bond

2. with a face value of $10,000, and received $9259, repaying
$10,000 after one year. The interest rate on this bond would
be
16) Suppose Matt's Cars issues a discount bond with a face
value of $10,000 payable in one year with an interest rate of
4%. How much will Acme receive for the bond?
17) A coupon bond involves
18) The coupon rate is the
19) Which of the following is a coupon bond?
20) Which of the following is NOT true of a fixed payment
loan?
21) Which of the following is a fixed payment loan?
22) Which of the following is NOT a fixed payment loan?
23) Treasury STRIPS are
24) Treasury STRIPS came into existence because
25) The concept of present value
26) The key difficulty in answering the question: "Would you
be better off financing your home with a 15-year mortgage at
9% or by borrowing for five years at 8% and refinancing
thereafter?" is that
27) The key to present value calculations is that they
28) Compounding refers to
29) If you deposit $500 in a savings account at an annual
interest rate of 5%, how much will you have in the account at
the end of five years?
30) If you deposit $10,000 in a savings account at an annual
interest rate of 6%, how much will you have in the account at
the end of three years?
31) $1 received n years from now has a value today of
32) At an interest rate of 6%, what is the present value of
$10,000 to be received five years from now?

3. 33) At an interest rate of 3%, what is the present value of
$1000 to be received five years from now?
34) If the interest rate is 8%, what would you expect to pay
for a discount bond paying $10,000 in ten years?
35) If the interest rate is 9%, what would you expect to pay
for a discount bond paying $10,000 in two years?
36) The yield to maturity is equal to
37) For simple loans, the yield to maturity
38) What is the yield to maturity on a simple loan that
requires payment of $500 plus $30 in interest one year from
now?
39) The yield to maturity on a one-year discount bond equals
40) A one-year discount bond with a par value of $5000 sold
today, at issuance, for $4750 has a yield to maturity of
41) A one-year discount bond with a par value of $1000 sold
today, at issuance, for $943 has a yield to maturity of
42) On a coupon bond, the yield to maturity
43) What is the price of a coupon bond that has annual
coupon payments of $85, a par value of $1000, a yield to
maturity of 10%, and a maturity of three years?
44) What is the price of a coupon bond that has annual
coupon payments of $75, a par value of $1000, a yield to
maturity of 5%, and a maturity of two years?
45) What is the yield to maturity of a consol with a coupon of
$85 and a price of $944.44?
46) If i is the yield to maturity of a fixed-payment loan
47) If, while you are holding a coupon bond, its market price
falls, you can be sure that
48) If, while you are holding a coupon bond, the interest
rates on other similar bonds fall, you can be sure that
49) If investors are willing to pay more than the par value for

4. a bond, you can be sure that
50) The current yield is equal to
51) A coupon bond has a coupon of $75, a par value of
$1000, and a market price of $900. Its current yield equals
52) Which of the following is NOT fixed on a coupon bond?
53) Which of the following is fixed on a coupon bond?
54) If the current price of a bond is equal to its face value,
55) If the current price of a bond is less than its face value,
56) If the current price of a bond is greater than its face value
57) A bond's price and its yield to maturity are inversely
related because
58) For a specific change in the yield to maturity
59) If an investor is certain that market interest rates will
decline in the future, which of the following will she be most
likely to purchase?
60) An investor who buys a fifty-year corporate bond
61) U.S. Treasury bonds
62) Investors who attempt to reduce their risk of fluctuating
market interest rates by holding only short-term instruments
63) Suppose that a coupon bond is listed in The Wall Street
Journal as having a coupon rate of 8.25% and a bid price of
120:19. Its current yield is
64) When a bond is listed as having two maturity dates
65) The bid price for a bond is
66) With respect to U.S. Treasury bills
67) What is the yield on a discount basis for a U.S. Treasury
bill that has a face value of $10,000, has a price of $9500, and
will mature in 180 days?
68) In comparing the yield to maturity on a Treasury bill with
the yield on a discount basis on the same bill, we can say that
the yield to maturity

5. 69) The current yield is
70) We would expect yields on long-term corporate bonds
71) The only case for which the bond price does not react to
a change in the yield to maturity is when
72) The total rate of return is equal to the
73) What is the total rate of return on a bond with a coupon
of $55 that was purchased for $900 and sold one year later
for $950?
74) Which of the following statements about the total rate of
return is NOT correct?
75) The total rate of return is equal to
76) The expected real interest rate equals
77) Which of the following is the correct expression for the
expected real interest rate?
78) The Fisher hypothesis holds that
79) Nominal interest rates are higher than real interest rates
as long as
80) If the nominal interest rate is 5%, the tax rate is 25%, and
the expected inflation rate is 3%, what is the real after-tax
return?
4.2 Essay Questions
1) Suppose that the inflation rate is currently 8% and that
most investors believe that inflation will remain at this level
indefinitely. You are convinced, however, that the inflation
will decline to 5% or less. Should you buy a 10-year Treasury
bond or a 10-year TIPS?
2) Suppose you are considering buying one of two ...
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