Sidley Brown, a fixed-income associate at KMR Capital, is analyzing the effect of interest rate volatility on

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Sidley Brown, a fixed-income associate at KMR Capital, is analyzing the effect of interest rate volatility on the values of callable and putable bonds issued by Weather Analytics (WA). WA is owned by the sovereign government, so its bonds are considered default free. Brown is currently looking at three of WA’s bonds and has gathered the following information about them:Characteristic Times to maturity Coupon Type of bond Price (as a % of par) Bond X Three years from today 5.2%

The one-year, two-year, and three-year par rates are 4.400%, 4.700%, and 5.000%, respectively. Based on an estimated interest rate volatility of 15%, Brown has constructed the following binomial interest rate tree:Year 0 4.4000% Year 1 5.7678% 4.2729% Year 2 7.4832% 5.5437% 4.1069%

The coupon rate of Bond Y is closest to:

A. 4.200%.

B. 5.000%.

C. 6.000%.

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Fixed Income Analysis

ISBN: 9781119850540

5th Edition

Authors: Barbara S. Petitt

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