Session 17: Derivative Investments: Options, Swaps, and Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives Reading 62: Option Markets and Contracts
LOS a: Calculate and interpret the prices of a synthetic call option, synthetic put option, synthetic bond, and synthetic underlying stock, and infer why an investor would want to create such instruments.
Referring to put-call parity, which one of the following alternatives would allow you to create a synthetic riskless pure-discount bond?
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Buy a European put option; sell the same stock; sell a European call option. | |
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Sell a European put option; sell the same stock; buy a European call option. | |
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Buy a European put option; buy the same stock; sell a European call option. | |
According to put-call parity we can write a riskless pure-discount bond position as: X/(1+Rf)T = P0 + S0 – C0.
We can then read off the right-hand side of the equation to create a synthetic position in the riskless pure-discount bond. We would need to buy the European put, buy the same underlying stock, and sell the European call.
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