CNCT ACC CORPORATE FINANCE
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Chapter 10, Problem 10QAP
Calculating Real Returns and Risk Premiums In Problem 9, suppose the average inflation rate over this period was 3.6 percent and the average T-bill rate over the period was 4.1 percent.
a. What was the average real return on the company’s stock?
b. What was the average nominal risk premium on the company’s stock?
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1. Risk free rate represents:
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b. The rate provided by long term government securities
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d. The rate provided by short term government securities
2. The market risk premium is measured by:
a. T-bill rate.
b. market return less risk-free rate.
c. beta.
d. standard deviation.
3. A stock with a beta of one would be expected to have a rate of return equal to
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.75
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