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Melissa Sanders, a recent MBA graduate in finance and accounting from Regis University, is an analyst at a local hedge fund. The fund wishes to sell (write) European calls on 2-year, 4.5% coupon Treasury notes. The notes currently sell for $98.90. The one-year forward rate (r0) is 4.65 percent. The assumed one-year forward rate one year from now (r1,L) is 5.0 percent. The standard deviation is 10 percent. Fill in the seven boxes of the following binomial tree. ASSUME EACH STATE HAS A PROBABILITY OF 50% AND INTEREST IS PAID ANNUALLY. Show your work.

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Here, r1,L = 5%, and s = 0.10
The standard exponential function is e2s = EXP(2s)
Then r1,H = r1,L(e2s) = r1,L* EXP(2s)
= 0.05*EXP(2 x 0.10)
= 0.0375(1.2214)
= 0.0611 or 6.11%.

Note: the expected interest rate one year from now according to the binomial tree is:
6.11%*(0.5) + 5%*(0.5) = 5.56%

The two-year Treasury notes, will unambiguously pay 100 percent of par ...

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