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Past exam of the mathematical models of financial derivatives course of the University of Oxford 2021 3 a i Solution by
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For a long position in the claim, hold shares and bank value so that claim plus hedge has zero initial value. The Black-Scholes equation and Itô's formula show that the total position is self-financing and its Brownian and drift terms cancel. Equivalently, the positive replicating portfolio holds shares and bond value .
Under the usual growth, integrability and admissibility conditions, no-arbitrage forces the claim price to be : a different price could be traded against the replicating portfolio. The qualification matters because an arbitrary formal PDE solution without a suitable financial class need not be a valid price.
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