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A) It is upward sloping as the yield is increasing with the maturity.
B) Interest rates on short term maturities are lower than rates on long term maturities.
Explanation: We can see from the table that the interest rates are less for short term maturity than the interest rates for long term maturity.
C) Increase
Explanation : If the interest rates in the next ten years increases by keeping real risk free rate constant and MRP = 0, then there must have been an increase in the inflation to increase the interest rate , so that inflation risk is compensated.
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