What is 'Yield Equivalence'

The interest rate on a taxable security that would render a return equivalent to that of a tax-exempt security, and vice versa, calculated as follows:

Explaining 'Yield Equivalence'

In order to calculate yield equivalence, divide the tax-exempt yield by 1 minus the investor's tax rate. For example, say you were considering a 6% tax-exempt municipal bond, but you would like to calculate what the interest rate on a taxable investment would have to be to give you the same return. If you have a 20% rate of taxation, you would need a return of 7.5% on your taxable investment to match the 6% return on the tax-exempt investment (6%/(1-0.20)=7.5%).

Further Reading

Financial opening, deposit insurance, and risk in a model of banking competition
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Forecasting the term structure of government bond yields
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The cost of capital, corporation finance and the theory of investment
www.jstor.org [PDF]
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Money in the utility function: functional equivalence to a shopping-time model
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What drives provincial‐Canada yield spreads?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF]
… 10 Despite this issue, the smoothness of the NSS yield curve, its ease of economic interpretation, and its relative … data on zero-coupon yields (continuously compounded), instantaneous forward rates (continuously compounded) and par yields (coupon-equivalent), for the …

Reverse engineering the yield curve
www.nber.org [PDF]
… 10 Despite this issue, the smoothness of the NSS yield curve, its ease of economic interpretation, and its relative … data on zero-coupon yields (continuously compounded), instantaneous forward rates (continuously compounded) and par yields (coupon-equivalent), for the …

Why Gaussian macro-finance term structure models are (nearly) unconstrained factor-VARs
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… 10 Despite this issue, the smoothness of the NSS yield curve, its ease of economic interpretation, and its relative … data on zero-coupon yields (continuously compounded), instantaneous forward rates (continuously compounded) and par yields (coupon-equivalent), for the …