lower-bounds

Learning objectives: Identify the six factors that affect an option’s price. Identify and compute upper and lower bounds for option prices on non-dividend and dividend paying stocks. Explain put-call parity and apply it to the valuation of European and American stock options, with dividends and...

The lower bound for the price of a European call option is given by max[0, S(0) - K*exp(-rT) - D]. The lower bound for the price of a European put option is given by max[0, K*exp(-rT) - S(0) + D], where D is the lump-sum PV of the dividend. Where q is the continuous dividend, the lump-sum D=...

Learning objectives: Identify the six factors that affect an option’s price and describe how these six factors affect the price for both European and American options. Identify and compute upper and lower bounds for option prices on non-dividend and dividend paying stocks. Questions: 725.1...

Hi David, According to Hull, dividends play a role in determining the lower bounds of options prices, but that does not appear in your video. If a question like this arises and the stock provides dividends, should we go by what Hull says? I also have notes from a class I took that says...