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1. Question 1 (credit rating agencies). Suppose credit rating is the only thing that determines companies' debt interest rate] Below is the interest rate associated with each credit rating. Consider a company that is issuing a ten-year fixed-rate bond with a principal value of $1 billion today. Throughout this question, ignore the time value of money (i.e., a dollar in the future is worth the same as a dollar today). (a) (1 point) Suppose the company currently has a credit rating of A.A. How much interest expense (in dollars) can it save in total over the next ten years if its credit rating become AAA ? 'Created with help and feedback from Rachel Nelson. 1 This is not true in reality, but credit ratings are arguably the most important detenuinaut of interest rates, 1 (b) (1 point) Suppose the company currently has a credit rating of BBB. How much additional interest expense (in dollar terms) does it incur over the next ten years if its credit rating drops to BB ? (c) (1 point) Suppose the company currently has a rating of BB. The company's management simply wants to maximize firm value (with no concern about morality), and suppose they are considering spending up to $X dollars to bribe the eredit rating agency to make the credit rating BBB. Assume that bribing always works and will never be caught. How much, at most, is the company management willing to spend