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Exhibit 21.3
Use the Information Below for the Following Problem(S)
As a relationship officer for a money-center commercial bank, one of your corporate accounts has just approached you about a one-year loan for $3,000,000. The customer would pay a quarterly interest expense based on the prevailing level of LIBOR at the beginning of each quarter. As is the bank's convention on all such loans, the amount of the interest payment would then be paid at the end of the quarterly cycle when the new rate for the next cycle is determined. You observe the following LIBOR yield curve in the cash market:
$\begin{array}{ll}90 \text {-day LIBOR } & 4.70 \% \\180 \text {-day LIBOR } & 4.85 \% \\\text { 270-day LIBOR } & 5.10 \% \\\text { 360-day LIBOR } & 5.40 \%\end{array}$
-Refer to Exhibit 21.3.Assuming the yields inferred from the Eurodollar futures contract prices for the next three settlement periods are equal to the implied forward rates,calculate the dollar value of the annuity that would leave the bank indifferent between making the floating-rate loan and hedging it in the futures market,and making a one-year fixed-rate loan.

Evaluate the strategic implications of Stackelberg leadership in quantity competition.

Assess the outcomes of collusion and cartel formation on market efficiency and production.

Understand and apply the concept of reaction functions in the context of duopoly competition.

Analyze the impact of cost structures on firms' strategic decisions and market outcomes.

Definitions:

Reactions

The responses or behavior of a person following a particular event, action, or situation.

Situation

The set of circumstances or context in which an event occurs, influencing the outcome or the actions of those involved.

Trait Approach

A way of studying personality that focuses on identifying and measuring individual differences in behavioral predispositions.