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From zero rates to a swap valuation · Part 1 of 3
The one-year zero rate is 3% and the two-year zero rate is 4%, both annually compounded. Interest rate swaps on this curve exchange a fixed rate for the floating one-year rate once a year.
What one-year rate, starting one year from now, do the two zero rates imply, in per cent?
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