Interest Costs for Short-Term Debt Are Generally Lower Than Interest

question 168

Multiple Choice

Interest costs for short-term debt are generally lower than interest costs for long-term debt because

• A) the term structure of interest rates generally reflects an upward sloping yield curve.
• B) short-term debt is more flexible, allowing a match of short-term needs with short-term financing.
• C) investors demand higher returns on short-term debt due to liquidity concerns.
• D) both A and B.

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Definitions:

Critical Value

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the boundary for rejecting or failing to reject the null hypothesis.

Critical Value

A point on the scale of the test statistic beyond which we reject the null hypothesis; it marks the threshold of statistical significance.

P Value

The probability of obtaining test results at least as extreme as the observed results, assuming that the null hypothesis is correct.

Null Hypothesis

A statement proposing no significant difference or relationship between variables, serving as a default assumption to be tested against.