Paper 1, Section II, 29J
(i) Suppose that the price of an asset at time is given by
where is a Brownian motion, and are positive constants, and is the riskless rate of interest, assumed constant. In this model, explain briefly why the time-0 price of a derivative which delivers a bounded random variable at time should be given by . What feature of this model ensures that the price is unique?
Derive an expression for the time- 0 price of a European call option with strike and expiry . Explain the italicized terms.
(ii) Suppose now that the price of an asset at time is given by
where the and are positive constants, and the other notation is as in part (i) above. Show that the time-0 price of a European call option with strike and expiry written on this asset can be expressed as
where the are constants. Explain how the are characterized.