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Chapter 21, Problem 24P
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To determine: The reasons the risk-neutral probabilities can be used to price derivative when the investors are risk averse.

Introduction: A binomial model portrays the development of irregular variables over a progression of time steps, relegating specified probabilities to increase or decrease in the variable. The binomial option pricing model makes the improving supposition toward the finish of every period; the price of stock has just two conceivable values.

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Corporate Finance Plus MyLab Finance with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (4th Edition) (Berk, DeMarzo & Harford, The Corporate Finance Series)

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