Exam 6: Understanding Financial Markets and Institutions

One-year Treasury bills currently earn 4.5 percent. You expect that one year from now, one-year Treasury bill rates will increase to 6.65 percent. The liquidity premium on two-year securities is 0.05 percent. If the liquidity theory is correct, what should the current rate be on two-year Treasury securities?

Which of these is the expected or "implied" rate on a short-term security that will originate at some point in the future?

Which of these capital market instruments are long-term loans to individuals or businesses to purchase homes, pieces of land, or other real property?

One-year Treasury bills currently earn 5.50 percent. You expect that one year from now, one-year Treasury bill rates will increase to 5.75 percent. If the unbiased expectations theory is correct, what should the current rate be on two-year Treasury securities?

Which of these formalizes an agreement between two parties to exchange a standard quantity of an asset at a predetermined price on a specified date in the future?

The Wall Street Journal reports that the rate on three-year Treasury securities is 7.00 percent, and the six-year Treasury rate is 6.20 percent. From discussions with your broker, you have determined that the expected inflation premium will be 2.25 percent next year, 2.50 percent in year 2, and 2.50 percent in year 3 and beyond. Further, you expect that real interest rates will be 4.4 percent annually for the foreseeable future. Calculate the maturity risk premium on the 3-year Treasury security.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the current rate on 10-year Treasury bonds is 3.25 percent and on 20-year Treasury bonds is 5.50 percent. Assume that the maturity risk premium is zero. Calculate the expected rate on a 10-year Treasury bond purchased 10 years from today, E(₁₀r₁₀).

When monetary policy objectives are to contract the economic growth, which of the following occurs?

Which of these is a comparison of market yields on securities, assuming all characteristics except maturity are the same?

All of the following are benefits that financial institutions provide to our economy EXCEPT

One-year Treasury bills currently earn 2.55 percent. You expect that one year from now, one-year Treasury bill rates will increase to 2.85 percent and that two years from now, one-year Treasury bill rates will increase to 3.15 percent. If the unbiased expectations theory is correct, what should the current rate be on 3-year Treasury securities?

Suppose we observe the following rates: ₁R₁ = 6 percent, ₁R₂ = 7.5 percent. If the unbiased expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates holds, what is the one-year interest rate expected one year from now, E(₂r₁)?

All of the following are factors that influence interest rates for individual securities EXCEPT

A particular security's default risk premium is 3 percent. For all securities, the inflation risk premium is 2 percent and the real interest rate is 2.25 percent. The security's liquidity risk premium is 0.75 percent and maturity risk premium is 0.90 percent. The security has no special covenants. What is the security's equilibrium rate of return?

The Wall Street Journal reports that the rate on three-year Treasury securities is 6.50 percent, and the six-year Treasury rate is 6.80 percent. From discussions with your broker, you have determined that the expected inflation premium will 2.25 percent next year, 2.50 percent in year 2, and 2.60 percent in year 3 and beyond. Further, you expect that real interest rates will be 3.4 percent annually for the foreseeable future. Calculate the maturity risk premium on the three-year and the six-year Treasury security.

Which of the following are demanders of loanable funds?

Once firms issue financial instruments in primary markets, these same stocks and bonds are then traded in which of these?

Which of the following occurs as the nonprice restrictions put on borrowers as a condition of borrowing increase?

The Wall Street Journal reports that the rate on three-year Treasury securities is 7.25 percent and the rate on four-year Treasury securities is 8.50 percent. The one-year interest rate expected in three years is E(₄r₁), 4.10 percent. According to the liquidity premium theory, what is the liquidity premium on the four-year Treasury security, L₄?

Which of the following statements is correct?