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Past exam of the martingales and financial mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2011 B 5 c Solution by
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For this stock-dependent payoff, replace the stock drift by under a risk-neutral measure. Conditional lognormal moments then give, with ,This is the Power payoff in the Black-Scholes model. The delta hedge is shares, so the stock holding is worth . The rest is a bank position worth , or units of the bank asset. This gives a replicating portfolio; its self-financing identity follows from Itô's formula and the Black-Scholes pricing equation, and its terminal value is .
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