April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
7h 21m
English
A zero-coupon bond is a bond that does not pay any periodic interest except on maturity, where the principal or face value is repaid. Zero-coupon bonds are also called pure discount bonds.
A zero-coupon bond can be valued as follows:

Here,
is the annually compounded yield or rate of the bond, and
is the time remaining to the maturity of the bond.
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