TD - Assets prices and European call options

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QUESTION
(a) An investor wishes to trade in options on an asset whose current price
one year from the maturity date of an option is $25, the exercise price
of the option is $20, the risk-free interest rate is 5% per annum and
the asset volatility is 20% per annum. Calculate by what amount the
asset price has to change for the purchaser of a European call option
to break even giving your answer to 4 decimal places?
(b) Write down the call-put parity formula for European options. Hence
repeat part (a) but for a European put.
(c) Sketch the qualitative behaviour of the European call and put values
over the lifetime of the option as a function of the underlying asset
price.
(d) Calculate the initial price of the call option in part (a) if the asset pays
a continuous dividend of DS where S is the asset price and D = 0.01.
You may assume that the solution of the Black-Scholes equation for a European call option, paying no dividends, is given by,
c(S,t) = SN(d1) − K exp(−r(T − t))N(d2),
d1 =
log ³
S
K
´
+
³
r +
σ
2
2
´
(T − t)
σ

T − t
,
d2 =
log ³
S
K
´
+
³
r −
σ
2
2
´
(T − t)
σ

T − t

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