As head of currency trading at Ball Bearings Bank in London, you need to price a series
Question:
As head of currency trading at Ball Bearings Bank in London, you need to price a series of options of various maturity on Danish kroner. The current spot rate is .
Continuously compounded risk-free 3-month interest rates in the United Kingdom and in Denmark are percent and percent, respectively. Instantaneous volatility on the pound/krone spot rate is percent per three months. The international parity conditions hold.
a. Assume an exercise price of . Complete the following table based on the international parity conditions and the currency option pricing formulas in Equations (6A.4) and (6A.6).
Maturities T 1 month 3 months 6 months 1 year Forward rate Call option value Put option value
b. Repeat part
(a) using the currency option pricing formula in Equations (6A.3) and (6A.5).
c. Draw a payoff profile that includes all four calls on the same graph.
d. Draw a payoff profile that includes all four puts on the same graph.
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Multinational Finance Evaluating The Opportunities Costs And Risks Of Multinational Operations
ISBN: 9781119219682
6th Edition
Authors: Kirt C. Butler