To illustrate a finance application, suppose we have a bond that pays a 5 coupon annually with

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To illustrate a finance application, suppose we have a bond that pays a

£5 coupon annually with the next coupon due immediately, the bond has exactly five years left to maturity when it will be redeemed at its par value of £100 and an appropriate discount rate is 10%. What would be a fair price to pay today for the bond?

We would calculate the fair price as the discounted sum of the six coupon payments (one now and one at the end of each of the next five years) and plus the discounted value of the par amount of the bond. If we let the fair price in pounds be denoted by P0

, the calculation would be

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