EXPECTED RETURNS
For a one-year discount bond and a one-year holding
period, the expected return and the interest rate are identical, so nothing besides
today s interest rate affects the expected return.
For bonds with maturities of greater than one year, the expected return may dif-
fer from the interest rate. For example, we saw in Chapter 4, Table 4-2 (page 74),
that a rise in the interest rate on a long-term bond from 10 to 20% would lead to
a sharp decline in price and a very negative return. Hence, if people begin to think
that interest rates will be higher next year than they had originally anticipated, the
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