Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 39 1 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
For the exponential payoff, substituting gives , , and . Dividing the backward partial differential equation by the nonzero factor therefore gives the exponential payoff transform PDEThe terminal value isThe correlation changes the first-derivative coefficient, while the original drift of the log price combines with its variance to give rather than .