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Consider the Black-Scholes model, i.e. a market model with one risky asset with price at time given by
where denotes a Brownian motion on the constant growth rate, the constant volatility and the initial price of the asset. Assume that the riskless rate of interest is .
(a) Consider a European option with expiry for any bounded, continuous function . Use the Cameron-Martin theorem to characterize the equivalent martingale measure and deduce the following formula for the price of at time 0 :
(b) Find the price at time 0 of a European option with maturity and payoff for some . What is the value of the option at any time Determine a hedging strategy (you only need to specify how many units of the risky asset are held at any time ).