Pricing Conventions, Discounting, and Interest Rates

Free GARP FRM Part I lesson in Valuation and Risk Models. 22 min read, ~3,338 words.

Discount factor is the present value today of $1 received at time t; bond price equals the sum of cash flows times their discount factors. Law of one price: identical cash flows must carry identical prices, and any violation creates a riskless arbitrage opportunity. Spot rate is a zero-coupon yield...

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