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Computing an American option price in the two-period CRR model. Finally, from the option values at time 1, we compute the time-0 option price as max 0, e-rAt p 0 1 - p 7.2257 3.1039 From the holder's point of view, the option should not be exercised immediately at time 0 because it would pay zero the holder should exercise at time 1 if the stock goes down, because the option pays 7.2257, which is larger than the value 5.9834 of waiting. The holder should not exercise at time 1 if the stock goes...
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and can therefore be replicated by trading in 1i securities, holding C mi shares of the security 1i. We can now use Theorem 6.3 to conclude that there exists an EMM P for the extended market. This is also an EMM for the original market, and we are done. Et Z T X Z t E X 6.57 For this we need the definition of conditional expectations from the measure theory Conditional expectation Y Et X with respect to the information given by the a -algebra Ft see the chapter 16 definitions is the random...
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We see that the extra term involves the second derivative fxx. If we substitute for dX t and suppress in the notation the dependence on t, X t , we get the following useful form of Ito's rule This is also valid when x and a are general random processes, as long as, for all t, their value at time t is completely determined by the history of W up to time t, that is, as long as they are adapted. As a good way to remember it, we could write Ito's rule in an informal way as df ftdt fxdX 1 fxxdX dX...
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The first term on the right-hand side converges to the ordinary integral f0 f W s ds. Together with the established convergence of An, we see that it only remains to show that the second sum of Bn and the term Cn converge to zero. Note that the expected values of the product of the summands in the second sum of Bn satisfy, as in equation 3.17 , E f W, 1 Wi Wi 1 2 t, t, 1 f Wj 1 Wj Wj 1 2 tj tj 1 0 E Wj Wj 1 2 tj tj 1 Using this, and denoting by B2,n the second sum of Bn, we see that E B2J E E f...