A stock is currently priced at $50. The stock will never pay a dividend. The risk-free rate
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A stock is currently priced at $50. The stock will never pay a dividend. The risk-free rate is 12 percent per year, compounded continuously, and the standard deviation of the stock’s return is 60 percent. A European call option on the stock has a strike price of $100 and no expiration date, meaning that it has an infinite life. Based on Black–Scholes, what is the value of the call option? Do you see a paradox here? Do you see a way out of the paradox?
Strike PriceIn finance, the strike price of an option is the fixed price at which the owner of the option can buy, or sell, the underlying security or commodity.
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ISBN: 978-0077861759
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Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe
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