Solution

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At maturity debt receives the smaller of face value and firm assets:
Thus it is equivalent to a zero-coupon payment minus a European put option on the firm value. Its time- price is
Equity receives the residual , hence is a European call option:
put-call parity verifies , consistent with the stated balance-sheet identity. As with the replication arguments elsewhere, the physical drift does not enter these option prices.

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