You work at the NJ Treasury, you raise capital for government projects by issuing variable rate muni$-$bonds for $2$ years maturity.

You also know that you can offset your variable muni$-$bond risk by entering into an interest rate swap with Barclays.

You enter into the following swap:

You currently agree to pay LIBOR $+1\%$ on the muni bond as coupon.

In your swap you agree to pay $4\mathrm{.}5\%$ fixed and receive floating LIBOR $+2\%$

Which of the following is true?

Group of answer choices

if LIBOR was fixed low, you received artificially high rates in the swap.

if LIBOR was fixed high, Barclays would make artificially low payments in the swap.

if LIBOR was fixed lower than $4\mathrm{.}5\%,$ you may have made unnecessary payments to Barclays.

if LIBOR was fixed higher than $5\%,$ Barclays would receive higher payments from you