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Past exam of the martingales and financial mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2008 B 7 b Solution by
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Invest each cash payment received at time in the bank account until . Its accumulated terminal amount is , so the entire future stream is equivalent, path by path, to the terminal payment .
The risk-neutral pricing formula, including this reinvested payoff, iswhere . Equivalently, discount each cash flow directly to time . This is the discounted-gains martingale principle underlying the PDE in part (a).
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