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MBA (Full-Time) II Year Semester IV

Examination 2019 Paper No:

7108 Financial Derivatives


Max. Marks: 50

INSTRUCTIONS: The question paper contains


Seven questions in three pages. Attempt any Five
questions. All questions carry equal marks.

State
and Put-
Call
Parity
theorem
for
Europea
n
options.
Does
the put-
call
parity
rule
apply to
Americ
an
option?
Why is
it not
optimal
to
exercise
the
Americ
an call
before
maturity
?
European
put and
call
options
with
strike
price $ 25
and
expiry in

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6- months
are
trading at
$. 6.09
and $
8.78,
respectiv
ely. The
current
stock
price is $
21.37
with risk
free
interest
rate
continuou
s
compoun
ding
equal to
8%. Is
there an
arbitrage
opportuni
ty? How
can it be
exploited
?

2. Consider a
3-month
American
put with
strike
price $62
and
current
stock
price $60.
The life of
option is 3
months in
three-time
steps of 1
month and
in each
time step
the stock
price
either
moves up
or moves
down. If
the
volatility
is 24%,
calculate
the option
price on
each node
using
Binomial
option
pricing
model.
Does the
Binomial
model
give the
same
result as
the Black-
Sholes
model for
option
prices?

3. The stock price 6months


from the expiration of an
option is $80 with exercise
price $ 82. The risk-free
interest rate and
volatility are 10% per
annum and 25%
per annum, respectively.
Use Black —Sholes
option pricing formula to
obtain price
of American Call and Put
options. What is the
intrinsic value of the
option?

4. A Mutual fund has the


following portfolio (named
X) of options

Option Position (no of Delta Gamma


options held
Call -1500 0.6 2.4
Put -2000 -0.4 1.7
Call -750 0.5 1.9

If options Y and Z
having same delta of
0.1, gamma of 0.5 and
vega of .6 are also
available for trade then:

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