Contemporary Engineering Economics Plus MyLab Engineering with eText -- Access Card Package (6th Edition)
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Chapter 13, Problem 1P
To determine
Calculate the price.
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Price of six month European call option can be calculated by using the Black-Scholes equation as follow.
Table 1
Stock price (S0) | 120 |
Investment cost (K) | 150 |
Volatility | 0.45 |
Time to investment decision (T) | 0.5 |
Risk free rate (r) | 0.06 |
Dividend yield (w) | 0 |
Call value | 6.97 |
Put value | 32.53 |
d1 | -0.447892596 |
d2 | -0.766090647 |
N(d1) | 0.327115356 |
N(d2) | 0.221811184 |
N(-d1) | 0.672884644 |
N(-d2) | 0.778788816 |
The value of the call option is $6.97 that obtained by using black-Scholes equations.
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