Paper 2, Section II, J
(i) Give the definition of Brownian motion.
(ii) The price of an asset evolving in continuous time is represented as
where is a standard Brownian motion and and are constants. If riskless investment in a bank account returns a continuously compounded rate of interest , derive the Black-Scholes formula for the time-0 price of a European call option on asset with strike price and expiry . [Standard results from the course may be used without proof but must be stated clearly.]
(iii) In the same financial market, a certain contingent claim pays at time , where . Find the closed-form expression for the time- 0 value of this contingent claim.
Show that for every and ,
Using this identity, how would you replicate (at least approximately) the contingent claim with a portfolio consisting only of European calls?