Pricing a payoff of one over the terminal stock price
Question
In the Black-Scholes model (spot , rate , volatility , no dividends), a derivative pays at time . Find its price today.
Short answer
. Under the risk-neutral measure is normal with mean and variance , so . Discounting by gives the result.
Adapted from Zhou, A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews, sec. 6.1 Option Pricing, 'Black-Scholes formula E', p.147; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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