Calculate all state prices at the puts expiry

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1. Alumina Limited (AWC), is an Australian company that (partially) owns a number of mining and smelting operations globally; in Australia, this includes a number of Bauxite mines, and refineries that produce alumina and aluminium. At the time of writing, the share price for AWC is $1.56. Consider this to be time zero.

You wish to write a European put on AWC shares, with strike price $1.50, that expires in 4 (monthly) time steps. Assume that the return rate on a bank investment over each time step is R = 1.01.

(a) Use CRR notation to construct a four-step binomial pricing tree for an AWC share, with u = 1.25 and d = 1/u.

(b) Find the premium of the put by calculating the risk neutral probabilities and then constructing a four-step binomial pricing tree.

(c) Use put-call parity to find the premium of a European call with the same under- lying asset, strike price and expiry as the European put. Use PV0(K) = K/R4 .

(d) Calculate all state prices at the put's expiry. That is, calculate all λ(4, j) for j = 0, 1, . . . , 4 .

(e) Use the state prices λ(4, j) to calculate the premium of the European put. Com- pare this premium to the premium calculated in part (b).

2. Carsales.com Limited (CAR) is an Australian company that (unsurprisingly) owns the online marketplace www.carsales.com.au. At the time of writing, the share price of CAR is $18.86. Assume this is time zero.

You wish to compare premium prices of a European call calculated with the Black- Scholes model, with premium prices calculated with a binomial model. The call has strike price K = $20, and expires in 90 days so T = 90/365 years. The yearly volatility of CAR shares is estimated to be σ = 2.55 . Assume the continuously compounding interest rate is r = 3% pa.

(a) Calculate the call premium using the Black-Scholes model.

(b) Consider a three-step binomial CRR model.

(i) Assuming interest rates are constant over the life of the call, calculate the return R over one time step.

(ii) Calculate the up and down factors u and d in this three-step model.

(iii) Calculate the risk neutral probability π in this three-step model.

(iv) Construct a three-step binomial pricing tree for the call and calculate its premium.

(i) Assuming interest rates are constant over the life of the call, calculate the return R over one time step.

(ii) Calculate the up and down factors u and d in this ten-step model.

(iii) Calculate the risk neutral probability π in this ten-step model.

(iv) Construct a ten-step binomial pricing tree for the call and calculate its pre- mium.

(d) Compare the premiums calculated with the three-step and ten-step binomial mod- els with the premium calculated with the Black-Scholes model. You should find that the premium calculated from the ten-step model is closer to the Black-Scholes solution than the premium calculated from the three-step model. Why?

3. A binary call option pays $1 at expiry if the value of the underlying asset is greater than the strike price, and $0 otherwise.

(a) Construct a 4-step binomial tree for the stock price of an asset in CRR notation, with S = $5, u = 2, d = 1/u, and R = 3 .

(b) Work backwards through the tree using the general pricing formula to evaluate the current price of a binary call option, that expires at time 4, and has strike price $12.

(d) Use the state prices to directly evaluate the premium of the binary call option above (i.e., with expiry at time 4, and strike price $12).

(e) Recall that the premium of an Arrow-Debreau security was the state price. For a strike price K, and an N step binomial model with S, u, d and R defined as normal, what is the premium of the binary call option equal to? Answer with a description, not just a formula.

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