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A $100 Face Value One-Year Risk-Free Discount Bond Is Priced {99.74,94.74,89.74}\{ 99.74,94.74,89.74 \}

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A $100 face value one-year risk-free discount bond is priced at $95. The two-year discount bond is priced at $90. After one year, the two-year bond will take one of three possible prices with defined probabilities. Which of the following sets of prices is acceptable from a no-arbitrage standpoint?


A) {99.74,94.74,89.74}\{ 99.74,94.74,89.74 \} with equal probabilities.
B) {99.74,94.74,89.74}\{ 99.74,94.74,89.74 \} with probabilities {0.25,0.50,0.25}\{ 0.25,0.50,0.25 \} .
C) Both (a) and (b) .
D) The problem is not well-defined because there is no unique martingale probability measure for the two-year bond.

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