Dividend-yield discount shift

ID: dividend-yield-discount-shift

With constant continuous stock-dividend yield , the risk-neutral measure gives stock drift but cash claims are discounted at . The same terminal payoff in a no-dividend Black-Scholes model with interest rate has the identical stock-transition law but a different discount factor. Their prices therefore obey the displayed identity, under the usual payoff integrability conditions.

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