Fundamentals of Financial Management
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Chapter 18, Problem 4P
Intermediate Problems 4-5
BLACK-SCHOLES MODEL Assume that you have been given the following information on Fire Industries:
| Current stock price = $16 | Exercise price of option = $16 |
| Time until expiration of option = 6 months | Risk-free rate = 8% |
| Variance of stock price = 0.12 | d1 =0.28577 |
| d2 = 0.04082 | N(d1) = 0.61247 |
| N(d2) = 051628 |
Using the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model, what is the value of the option?
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Chapter 18 Solutions
Fundamentals of Financial Management
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