1.II.28I
Part II, 2006
Over two periods a stock price moves on a binomial tree.
Assuming that the riskless rate is constant at , verify that all risk-neutral up-probabilities are given by one value . Find the time- 0 value of the following three put options all struck at , with expiry 2 :
(a) a European put;
(b) an American put;
(c) a European put modified by raising the strike to at time 1 if the stock went down in the first period.