Coupon rate to sell at par value
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Bowdeen Manufacturing intends to issue callable, perpetual bonds with annual coupon payments. The bonds are callable at $1,280. One-year interest rates are 12 percent. There is a 50 percent probability that long-term interest rates one year from today will be 17 percent, and a 50 percent probability that they will be 8 percent. Assume that if interest rates fall the bonds will be called.
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What coupon rate should the bonds have in order to sell at par value?
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The solution explains how to calculate the coupon rate so as to sell the bonds at par value
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The bonds are perpetual bonds. This implies that the price of the bond will be Annual Coupon / Interest rate. The price of the bond is the present value of interest and interest is a perpetuity here.
Let C be the annual coupon needed for the bonds to sell at par.
If interest rates rise to 17%, ...
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