Stock-weighted call payoff in Black-Scholes
Question
Work in the Black-Scholes model with rate and volatility . A contract pays at time the amount , that is, the stock price multiplied by a call payoff. Find its price in closed form.
Short answer
, with the usual Black-Scholes . Split the payoff into . The second piece is asset-or-nothing calls worth ; the first uses and a change of measure that shifts the log-drift by .
Adapted from Joshi, Denson & Downes, Quant Job Interview Questions and Answers, Q2.7, p.17; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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