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Past exam of the martingales and financial mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2010 B 5 d Solution by
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Put . Conditional on present information, is independent of the past and is normal with mean zero and variance . Part (c) givesThe future drift in this auxiliary stock is precisely the risk-neutral drift. Discounting the conditional expectation and applying the normal exponential-moment formula yieldsAt expiry this reduces to ; at time zero it gives . This is a special case of conditional power moments of a continuous geometric Asian average.
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