Black-Scholes prices with a dividend yield
Question
Give the Black-Scholes formulas for European call and put prices on a stock that pays a continuous dividend yield .
Short answer
and , with and . The dividend yield simply replaces by , the value of the share without the dividends paid before expiry.
Adapted from Zhou, A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews, sec. 6.1 Option Pricing, 'Black-Scholes formula A', p.142; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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