Solution

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Let . The call-price decay and moment threshold follows by splitting the preceding integral at one. Since , for ,
For , the decay bound gives
The power payoff static call representation therefore yields
The case is the given finite first moment. The strict endpoint matters: a Pareto distribution with for has for , but its moment of order is infinite. Thus the stated decay condition does not generally imply the endpoint moment.

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