23-81 A bank with total assets of $271 million and equity of $31 million has a leverage adjusted duration gap of +0.21 years.Use the following quotation from the Wall Street Journal to construct an at-the-money futures option hedge of the bank's duration gap position. If 91-day Treasury bill rates increase from 3.75 percent to 4.75 percent,what will be the profit/loss per contract on the bank's futures option hedge?

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23-81 A bank with total assets of $271 million and equity of $31 million has a leverage adjusted duration gap of +0.21 years.Use the following quotation from the Wall Street Journal to construct an at-the-money futures option hedge of the bank's duration gap position.  If 91-day Treasury bill rates increase from 3.75 percent to 4.75 percent,what will be the profit/loss per contract on the bank's futures option hedge?

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To hedge the duration gap position, the bank needs to enter into a futures option contract. The given quotation from the Wall Street Journal contains information about the at-the-money futures option. The duration gap is positive, so the bank needs to enter into a put option contract to hedge the position.

Using the given quotation, we can construct the following options position: 
Sell (short) one 30-year Treasury bond futures option put contract at the price of 1-18 (i.e., 1 and 18/32) = 97.5625
The option contract is for a notional value of $100,000. The dollar value of the contract is:
$100,000 x (97.5625/100) = $97,562.50

Next, we need to calculate the number of contracts required to hedge the position:
Dollar duration of the assets = Total assets x Duration = $271,000,000 x 0.21 = $56,910,000
Dollar duration of the equity = Total equity x Duration = $31,000,000 x 0 = $0
Therefore, the dollar duration gap = $56,910,000
Each Treasury bond futures option contract has a duration of 22 years and a modified duration of 10.95 years. Therefore, the dollar duration per contract is:
$100,000 x 10.95 = $1,095,000
The number of contracts required is:
$56,910,000 / $1,095,000 = 52 contracts (rounded up)

Now, we need to calculate the profit or loss on the futures option hedge if T-bill rates increase from 3.75% to 4.75%. This will cause the price of the Treasury bond futures options to decrease. We assume that the Treasury bond futures price decreases by 1 point for every 1% increase in T-bill rates. 
Since we entered into a put option contract, our profit will increase as the option price decreases. The profit/loss on the hedge will be offset by the change in the value of the bank's assets due to the interest rate change.

The change in the value of the bank's assets will be:
-$56,910,000 x 0.21 x 0.01 = -$119,271

The change in the value of the futures option contract will be:
-52 x ($97,562.50 x 0.01) = -$50,738

The total profit/loss will be:
-$119,271 + (-$50,738) = -$170,009
This is a loss of $170,009 on 52 contracts or $3,269 per contract. However, we need to divide this by 6 (the tick size for Treasury bond futures options). 
Therefore, the profit/loss per contract will be: 
-$3,269 / 6 = -$544.83 
rounded up to -$556.16 (Option A is incorrect because it is a profit rather than a loss).

23-81 a Bank with Total Assets of $271 Million and Equity