Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2006/ii/paper-3/27i/b/solution

With continuous dividend yield , it is the discounted total gain from the stock, including dividends, that must be a martingale. The ex-dividend stock drift under the risk-neutral measure is therefore . Replace in the exponential representation by and repeat the chain rule. The discount rate remains , giving
The terminal payoff condition is unchanged.

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