1.II.28I

Stochastic Financial Models
Part II, 2006

Over two periods a stock price {St:t=0,1,2}\left\{S_{t}: t=0,1,2\right\} moves on a binomial tree.

Assuming that the riskless rate is constant at r=1/3r=1 / 3, verify that all risk-neutral up-probabilities are given by one value p(0,1)p \in(0,1). Find the time- 0 value of the following three put options all struck at K=S0=864=25×33K=S_{0}=864=2^{5} \times 3^{3}, with expiry 2 :

(a) a European put;

(b) an American put;

(c) a European put modified by raising the strike to K=992K=992 at time 1 if the stock went down in the first period.