mayo1565
Apr 15, 2014, 09:18 PM
(a) What is the price of an American-style call option assuming a 4% annual risk-free drift, a strike price = $150, and 3 years to maturity. In each year the price can either rise by a factor of 1.3 or fall by a factor of 0.9. The current price of the underlying asset is $100 and it pays no dividends.
(b) Why is the price in part (a) different than you would get from inputting a 10% drift and 20% volatility into the Black Scholes equation?
(c) What would be the price of an American-style put option on the same stock with the same maturity as in part (a) above?
(b) Why is the price in part (a) different than you would get from inputting a 10% drift and 20% volatility into the Black Scholes equation?
(c) What would be the price of an American-style put option on the same stock with the same maturity as in part (a) above?