24-11 Pricing a Fixed-Floating Rate Swap Agreement to Meet No-Arbitrage

question 72

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24-11 Pricing a fixed-floating rate swap agreement to meet no-arbitrage conditions requires that the expected present value of the cash flow payments made by the fixed-rate seller should equal the expected value of the cash flow payments made by the variable-rate buyer.

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