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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 iii Paper 32 1 b i Solution by
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The current price of one unit of certain future consumption is the sum of the Arrow state prices, namely . A unit-price risk-free asset yielding gross return must satisfy . HenceNormalize the Arrow state prices by their sum, or multiply them by , to obtain the risk-neutral probabilities:They are positive and sum to one. Any terminal payoff has current price . In particular any asset with current price one has . These pricing probabilities need not equal the physical probabilities governing the investor's utility.
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