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Suppose a bank makes the following offer: if you promise to deposit $1 million with them in two years’ time, they will repay the money one year later with $40,000 interest. Given the forward rate computed in (c), explain how you could exploit this offer to make an arbitrage and the potential problems that may stop this arbitrage.

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          Suppose a bank makes the following offer: if you promise to deposit $1 million with them in two years’ time, they will repay the money one year later with $40,000 interest. Given the forward rate computed in (c), explain how you could exploit this offer to make an arbitrage and the potential problems that may stop this arbitrage.

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Horngren’s Cost Accounting

Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan 16th Edition

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Suppose a bank makes the following offer: if you promise to deposit $1 million with them in two years’ time, they will repay the money one year later with $40,000 interest. Given the forward rate computed in (c), explain how you could exploit this offer to make an arbitrage and the potential problems that may stop this arbitrage.