Answer:
The price of miller's bond today $1,162.89
The price of Modgliani's bond today $854.66
Explanation:
The approach taken to arrive at the prices was that of discounting the future cash flows in terms of semi-annual coupon interest payment and repayment of principal of the two bonds to today's terms.
In discounting the cash flows I used the pv formula in excel, pv(rate,nper,pmt,-fv)
rate is the semi-annual yield to maturity of 4.5% for Miller and 5.5% for Modgliani
The nper is 15*2( 15 for years, 2 for semi-annual interest payment)
pmt is the semi-annual coupon payable by the bonds,$55 for Miller and $45 for Modliani
The future value is $1000 and it is same for both bonds
Find the calculation in the attached
