Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, The, Business School Edition (5th Edition) (What's New in Economics)
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Chapter 4, Problem 3Q
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To help pay for college, you have just taken out a $1000 government loan that makes you pay $126 per year for 25 years. However, you don't have to start making these payments until you are graduate from college two years from now. Why is the yield to maturity necessarily less than 12%?

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Yield to Maturity - Total return anticipated if the asset is kept till its maturity.

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