Indicate the following statements are Valid or invalid? Explain why? Question 1: Primary markets are more important
Question:
Indicate the following statements are Valid or invalid? Explain why?
Question 1:
Primary markets are more important than secondary markets, since firms raise capital only in primary markets.
Question 2:
Interest rate spread is a good performance measure for investment banks.
Question 3:
An investor with a Euroyen account in Japan earns the European interest rate.
Question 4:
According to the CAPM model, the only source of risk for investors is the volatility of the
asset return.
Question 5:
Hedging is irrelevant in the absence of market frictions.
Question 6:
Passive investors mainly rely on market timing ability to generate returns.
Question 7:
Entering into a fixed for floating interest rate swap always makes sense if the short rate (e.g., 3 months) is below the long-term interest rate (e.g., 10 years)
Question 8: There is no credit risk in futures.
Question 9:
The BDT model is particularly suitable to price derivatives in a low interest rate environment where short rates are close to the zero lower bound.
Question 10:
The value of a senior tranche in a CDO is increasing with the average default correlations of the underlying names.
Question 11:
In a carry trade you borrow in low interest rate currencies and invest in high interest rate currencies. Returns are exclusively due to the interest rate differential.
Question 12:
The presence of noise traders may increase the required return on an asset.
International Marketing And Export Management
ISBN: 9781292016924
8th Edition
Authors: Gerald Albaum , Alexander Josiassen , Edwin Duerr