For example, as a preparer or user, knowing that a zero-coupon bond matures in 10 years, how do you use the implicit interest rate to compute the periodic interest expense?

例如，无论你是制作者或是使用者，要是你知道一个零票息债券10年内到期，你会如何利用隐含利率去计算出每期间的利息支出呢？

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The implicit interest rate on 10-year loans to Italy (the yield on 10-year bonds) rose again above the 7% level which is regarded as punitively unaffordable.

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Even so, as taxpayers we should probably be grateful that gilt yields - the implicit interest rate paid by the government - are so low at the moment.

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As ever, a drop in the yield on German bonds, the fall in the implicit interest rate it would have to pay, is not a sign that investors are any more hopeful that a solution to the eurozone's stresses are anywhere in sight.

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