Nt1330 Unit 1 Exercise 2

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1CM22, Spring 2011 WEEK 12 M. Reindorp The four questions below can be used to improve your final grade for 1CM22, as described in the “grading” section of the study guide. In general, please show calculations for your answers. Some questions describe further specific requirements. You can work in groups (maximum four students each). Please show the name and student ID of all group members on the first page of your answers. This assignment is due by 12.00 (midday) on 18-05-2011. Please submit your answers in Paviljoen F0.16. 1. (a) Suppose there is a European put option on stock X with maturity in one year and current price €10. A European call option on stock X with maturity in one year has current price €15. Both options have exercise…show more content…
The stock of the company MENIAC computers is currently priced at $90. The stock price is expected either to go up by 25% or down by 20% every six months. The annual risk free interest rate is 20%. Your stock broker calls you with an unusual offer. You could pay C now for the following opportunity: six months from now you can choose whether or not to buy a European call option on MENIAC computers with a maturity of 6 months (i.e. it would expire 12 months from now). This second option would have an exercise price of $90 and cost $15. In other words, you have the opportunity to buy an option on an option. (a) If C is the fair price for this “compound option,” what is C? (b) Suppose that you didn’t have a choice after six months, but had to buy the second option. What would the fair price C be in this case? 3. You are in a situation similar to the one described by McLaughlin and Taggart (1992). You want to use real options analysis, in order to determine the opportunity cost of converting your factory from manufacture of product A to manufacture of product B. As in section II.A.2. of the research paper, your economic horizon ends six years from now,…show more content…
Show at least the following in your answer: (a) the full binomial tree of option values (b) the full binomial tree of investment decisions (invest or wait at each point) (c) the three separate components of the opportunity cost (d) and the total opportunity cost. It is acceptable to show additional calculations (for possible partial credit) if you wish. 4. Following the discussion of corporate bonds in the BMA textbook (9th edition chapter 24, 10th edition chapter 23), calculate the theoretical value (price) and promised yield of a corporate bond issue by company Z. Assume that the bond is a zero coupon bond (i.e., the only payment is the one at maturity) and that company Z has no other debt outstanding. Other relevant parameters are as follows: • • • • • Company Z current asset value: €100 million Total bond issue face value: €80 million (i.e., leverage of 80%) Risk free interest rate: 2% Standard deviation of return on company Z assets: 30% Bond maturity date: one year from

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