ch4 money & banking

21
Chapter 4 Understanding Interest Rates

Upload: muhammad-radwan

Post on 11-Mar-2016

254 views

Category:

Documents


8 download

DESCRIPTION

ch4 money & banking

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: ch4 money & banking

Chapter 4

Understanding Interest Rates

Page 2: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-2

Measuring Interest Rates

• Present Value:• A dollar paid to you one year from now is

less valuable than a dollar paid to you today

• Why?– A dollar deposited today can earn interest and

become $1 x (1+i) one year from today.

Page 3: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-3

Discounting the Future

2

3

Let = .10

In one year $100 X (1+ 0.10) = $110

In two years $110 X (1 + 0.10) = $121

or 100 X (1 + 0.10)

In three years $121 X (1 + 0.10) = $133

or 100 X (1 + 0.10)

In years

$100 X (1 + ) n

i

n

i

Page 4: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-4

Simple Present Value

n

PV = today's (present) value

CF = future cash flow (payment)

= the interest rate

CFPV =

(1 + )

i

i

Page 5: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-5

Time Line

$100 $100

Year 0 1

PV 100

2

$100 $100

n

100/(1+i) 100/(1+i)2 100/(1+i)n

•Cannot directly compare payments scheduled in different points in the time line

Page 6: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-6

Four Types of Credit Market Instruments

• Simple Loan• Fixed Payment Loan• Coupon Bond• Discount Bond

Page 7: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-7

Yield to Maturity

• The interest rate that equates the present value of cash flow payments received from a debt instrument with its value today

Page 8: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-8

Simple Loan

1

PV = amount borrowed = $100

CF = cash flow in one year = $110

= number of years = 1

$110$100 =

(1 + )

(1 + ) $100 = $110

$110(1 + ) =

$100 = 0.10 = 10%

For simple loans, the simple interest rate equ

n

i

i

i

i

als the

yield to maturity

Page 9: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-9

Fixed Payment Loan

2 3

The same cash flow payment every period throughout

the life of the loan

LV = loan value

FP = fixed yearly payment

= number of years until maturity

FP FP FP FPLV = . . . +

1 + (1 + ) (1 + ) (1 + )n

n

i i i i+ + +

Page 10: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-10

Coupon Bond

2 3

Using the same strategy used for the fixed-payment loan:

P = price of coupon bond

C = yearly coupon payment

F = face value of the bond

= years to maturity date

C C C C FP = . . . +

1+ (1+ ) (1+ ) (1+ ) (1n

n

i i i i+ + + +

+ )ni

Page 11: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-11

Table 1 Yields to Maturity on a 10%-Coupon-Rate Bond Maturing in Ten Years (Face Value = $1,000)

• When the coupon bond is priced at its face value, the yield to maturity equals the coupon rate

• The price of a coupon bond and the yield to maturity are negatively related

• The yield to maturity is greater than the coupon rate when the bond price is below its face value

Page 12: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-12

Consol or Perpetuity

• A bond with no maturity date that does not repay principal but pays fixed coupon payments forever

consol theofmaturity toyield

paymentinterest yearly

consol theof price

/

====

c

c

c

i

C

P

iCP

cc PCi /: thisasequation above rewritecan =For coupon bonds, this equation gives the current yield, an easy to calculate approximation to the yield to maturity

Page 13: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-13

Discount Bond

For any one year discount bond

i = F - P

PF = Face value of the discount bond

P = current price of the discount bond

The yield to maturity equals the increase

in price over the year divided by the initial price.

As with a coupon bond, the yield to maturity is

negatively related to the current bond price.

Page 14: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-14

The Distinction Between Interest Rates and Returns

The payments to the owner plus the change in value

expressed as a fraction of the purchase price

RET = C

Pt

+ P

t+1 - P

t

Pt

RET = return from holding the bond from time t to time t + 1

Pt = price of bond at time t

Pt+1

= price of the bond at time t + 1

C = coupon payment

C

Pt

= current yield = ic

P

t+1 - P

t

Pt

= rate of capital gain = g

• Rate of

Return:

Page 15: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-15

The Distinction Between Interest Rates and Returns (cont’d)

• The return equals the yield to maturity only if the holding period equals the time to maturity

• A rise in interest rates is associated with a fall in bond prices, resulting in a capital loss if time to maturity is longer than the holding period

• The more distant a bond’s maturity, the greater the size of the percentage price change associated with an interest-rate change

Page 16: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-16

The Distinction Between Interest Rates and Returns (cont’d)

• The more distant a bond’s maturity, the lower the rate of return the occurs as a result of an increase in the interest rate

• Even if a bond has a substantial initial interest rate, its return can be negative if interest rates rise

Page 17: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-17

Table 2 One-Year Returns on Different-Maturity 10%-Coupon-Rate Bonds When Interest Rates Rise from 10% to 20%

Page 18: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-18

Interest-Rate Risk

• Prices and returns for long-term bonds are more volatile than those for shorter-term bonds

• There is no interest-rate risk for any bond whose time to maturity matches the holding period

Page 19: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-19

The Distinction Between Real and Nominal Interest Rates

• Nominal interest rate makes no allowance for inflation

• Real interest rate is adjusted for changes in price level so it more accurately reflects the cost of borrowing

• Ex ante real interest rate is adjusted for expected changes in the price level

• Ex post real interest rate is adjusted for actual changes in the price level

Page 20: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-20

Fisher Equation

= nominal interest rate

= real interest rate

= expected inflation rate

When the real interest rate is low,

there are greater incentives to borrow and fewer incentives to lend.

The real inter

er

r

e

i i

i

i

π

π

= +

est rate is a better indicator of the incentives to

borrow and lend.

Page 21: ch4 money & banking

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-21

Figure 1 Real and Nominal Interest Rates (Three-Month Treasury Bill), 1953–2011

Sources: Nominal rates from www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H15 and inflation from ftp://ftp.bis.gov/special.requests/cpi/cpia.txt. The real rate is constructed using the procedure outlined in Frederic S. Mishkin, “The Real Interest Rate: An Empirical Investigation,” Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 15 (1981): 151–200. This procedure involves estimating expected inflation as a function of past interest rates, inflation, and time trends and then subtracting the expected inflation measure from the nominal interest rate.