Ve are given a 15-year $1,000 bond with 8% annual coupons sells at par. (a) Determine the price of the bond at an effective rate of 7.92%, using the fir approximation? (b) What is the price using the first-order Macaulay approximation? (c) How does this compare to the exact change in price?
Ve are given a 15-year $1,000 bond with 8% annual coupons sells at par. (a) Determine the price of the bond at an effective rate of 7.92%, using the fir approximation? (b) What is the price using the first-order Macaulay approximation? (c) How does this compare to the exact change in price?
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