You read in The Wall Street Journal that 30-day T-bills are currently yielding 8 percent. Your brother-in-law, a broker at Kyoto Securities, has given you the following estimates of current interest rate premiums:?
?
Inflation premium           5%
Liquidity premium           1%
Maturity risk premium   2%
Default risk premium     2%
Based on these data, the real risk-free rate of return is:
?

A. ?0%.
B. ?1%.
C. ?2%.
D. ?3%.
E. ?4%.


Answer: D

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