Cheung Zap Inc. just issued 19-year convertible bonds at a par value of $1,000. At any time before maturity, investors have the option to exchange their bonds for shares of Cheung's common stock at a conversion price of $48.96. Cheung's convertible bonds pay a 6.12% annual coupon, but if Cheung had issued straight-debt bonds (no conversion), it would have had to pay 10.20% annual interest.

Q2 (Exercise 9.9) Suppose call and put prices are given by Strike 50 55 Call premium 16 10 Put premium 7 14 What no-arbitrage property is violated? What spread position would you use to effect arbitrage? Demonstrate that the spread position is an arbitrage.

Bond Price ($) 50 3,300 3,000- 2,500- 2,000- 1,500- 1,000 810.71- 500- 0 5 10 8 Interest Rate (%) Convexity 15 6 717) The shape of the curve implies that an increase in the interest rate results in a price decline that is smaller than the price gain resulting from a decrease of equal magnitude in the 8 interest rate. This property of bond price is called? 19 20 Duration G 118) The Tangent line represented on the chart is a representation of an estimation of bond price change relative to a change in interest rate. It is known as? 52 Higher H 53 54 55 19) If Duration is estimation of an approximate change in price relative to a change in interest rate, the error in approximation will be (Higher/Same/Lower) for abond with higher 56 convexity? 57 58 co

1 ences The bonds of Generic Labs Inc. have a conversion premium of $60. Their conversion price is $25. The common stock price is $21.00. What is the price of the convertible bond? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Mc Graw Hill Convertible bond price Prev 2 of 10 MacBook Air Next >