Introduction, you are expected to provide a background information about the bond market by clearly describing and discussing the definition of bond, types of bond, importance of bond market,
importance of interest rate in the bond market
Aims and objectives of the assignment
•The main body of the assignment should focus on the description and discussion on the risk structure and term structure of interest rate
•Firstly, give a definition on risk structure of interest rate. In other words, what does risk structure of interest rate mainly investigate.
•Secondly, you could specifically describe and discuss the factors of risk-structure of interest rate which are default risk, liquidity and income tax considerations.
•More specifically, with regard to the first factor, default risk, you could talk about what is default risk, default-free bond as well as risk premium
•Using relevant figures to discuss the impact of default risk on interest rate
•Give the definition of liquidity and using relevant figures to discuss the impact of liquidity on interest rate
•What does income tax consideration mean and how does this factor affect the interest rate using relevant figures
•Using the real world example to talk about the impact of income tax on interest rate through collecting relevant data
•More specifically, with regard to the first factor, default risk, you could talk about what is default risk, default-free bond as well as risk premium
•Using relevant figures to discuss the impact of default risk on interest rate
•Give the definition of liquidity and using relevant figures to discuss the impact of liquidity on interest rate
•What does income tax consideration mean and how does this factor affect the interest rate using relevant figures
•Using the real world example to talk about the impact of income tax on interest rate through collecting relevant data
.Unit: Percentage
.Modified Frequency: Monthly
What is market segmentation theory ? What is assumption of theory? How about the implication?
•What does this theory mainly tell us?(linked to the graphs)
•What is liquidity premium theory? What is the assumption of this theory and how about the implication
•If we use, a, b to represent the one-year interest rate and c to represent two-year interest rate and l2 to represent the liquidity premium, what would be the relationship among them?
•What does the liquidity premium theory tell us
•Conclusion
•Talk about the importance of bond market in the US
•Give emphasize on the importance of yield (interest rate ) of bond
•Summarize the risk structure of interest rate
•Summarize the term structure of interest rate