zero-coupon bond


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Noun1.zero-coupon bond - a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bondzero-coupon bond - a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond; the commonest form of zero-coupon security
governing, government activity, government, governance, administration - the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"
corp, corporation - a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state
bond certificate, bond - a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal
zero coupon security, zero-coupon security - a security that makes no interest payments but instead is sold at a deep discount from its face value
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First, we report the real term premia of our model, defined as the average yield difference between a 30-year and a 1-year zero-coupon bond, denoted by E([R.sup.zc30] - [R.sup.f]).
In Section 2, the new pricing models of zero-coupon bond and European option are established, and then the corresponding pricing formulas are derived.
The offer would substitute Heta's debt with a zero-coupon bond guaranteed by the Austrian government.
A capital appreciation bond is sort of like a zero-coupon bond, but instead of being sold at a discount from the face value, the bond is sold as returning a fixed rate of interest.
The zero-coupon bond yield for the matching maturity implied by the term structure for Canadian government securities is used as a proxy for the Canadian interest rate.
The third asset is one zero-coupon bond with maturity T, whose price process is denoted by B(t, T).
Thus, from the point of view of bond repayment schedule, it is a compromise between a classical fixed interest bond and zero-coupon bond. Considering the value of money over time, the characteristics of variable coupons may be selected in such a way that the debt cost perceived as its internal rate of return would remain unchanged in relation to classical repayment methods.
Consider [I.sup.j.sub.t], the domestic-denominated price of the foreign currency unit J and [B.sub.J](t,T), the foreign zero-coupon bond of country J.
Structured notes with principal protection typically combine a zero-coupon bond - which pays no interest until the bond matures - with an option or other derivative product whose payoff is linked to an underlying asset, index or benchmark.