Consider a one-year, 10 percent coupon bond with a face value of $1,000 issued by a private

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Consider a one-year, 10 percent coupon bond with a face value of $1,000 issued by a private corporation. The one-year risk-free rate is 10 percent. The corporation has hit on hard times, and the consensus is that there is a 20 percent probability that it will default on its bonds. If an investor were willing to pay $775 for the bond, is that investor risk neutral or risk averse?

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Money Banking And Financial Markets

ISBN: 9780073375908

3rd Edition

Authors: Stephen Cecchetti, Kermit Schoenholtz

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