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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

Stephen A. Ross; Randolph W. Westerfield; Bradford D. Jordan

Chapter 25

OPTION VALUATION - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

Problem 1

What is the impact of lengthening the time to expiration on an option's value? Explain.

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Problem 2

What is the impact of an increase in the volatility of the underlying stock's return on an option's value? Explain.

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Problem 3

How do interest rates affect option prices? Explain.

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Problem 4

The protective put strategy we discussed in the chapter is sometimes referred to as stock price insurance. Why?

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Problem 5

What is the intrinsic value of a call option? Of a put option? How do we interpret this value?

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Problem 6

What is the time value of a call option? Of a put option? What happens to the time value of a call option as the maturity increases? What about a put option?

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Problem 7

You are $\mathrm{CEO}$ of Titan Industries and have just been awarded a large number of employee stock options. The company has two mutually exclusive projects available. The first project has a large NPV and will reduce the total risk of the company. The second project has a small NPV and will increase the total risk of the company. You have decided to accept the first project when you remember your employee stock options. How might this affect your decision?

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Problem 8

You find a put and a call with the same exercise Page 856 price and maturity. What do you know about the relative prices of the put and call? Prove your answer and provide an intuitive explanation.

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Problem 9

A put and a call have the same maturity and strike price. If they have the same price, which one is in the money? Prove your answer and provide an intuitive explanation.

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Problem 10

One thing put-call parity tells us is that given any three of a stock, a call, a put, and a T-bill, the fourth can be synthesized or replicated using the other three. For example, how can we replicate a share of stock using a call, a put, and a T-bill?

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