Question 76
Which one of the following four statements about hedging is INCORRECT?
Question 77
Bank Alpha is making a decision about lending 10-year loans in a sector that is fairly illiquid and is looking at
various options to fund the loans. Which of the following options to fund the loans exhibits the most
exogenous liquidity risk?
Question 78
Which of the following are conclusions that could be drawn from the shape of the statistical distribution of
losses that a bank might incur over a future time period?
I. In most years a bank would look more profitable than it will be on average.
II. Most of the time a sufficiently well capitalized bank will appear over-capitalized.
III. Bad years do not come along very often, but when they do they lead to enormous losses.
Question 79
Gamma Bank provides a $100,000 loan to Big Bath retail stores at 5% interest rate (paid annually). The loan
also has an annual expected default rate of 2%, and loss given default at 50%. In this case, what will the bank's
expected loss be? What is the expected loss of this loan?
Question 80
A bank has a large number of auto loans and would prefer to sell them to raise cash for more funding.
However, selling individual auto loans is difficult. What could the bank do?