Down-and-out European call

ID: down-and-out-european-call

A down-and-out European call pays the usual European call option payoff only if a lower barrier has not been hit before maturity. In the zero-interest, zero-dividend Black-Scholes model, for , its value is . This follows from reflection of the drifted logarithmic price killed at the barrier.

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