CHAPTER 14 OPTIONS AND CORPORATE FINANCE Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions 1. A call option confers the right‚ without the obligation‚ to buy an asset at a given price on or before a given date. A put option confers the right‚ without the obligation‚ to sell an asset at a given price on or before a given date. You would buy a call option if you expect the price of the asset to increase. You would buy a put option if you expect the price of the asset to decrease. A
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Foreign Exchange Exposure Factors Affecting Euro Currency over time There are many key factors which can affect the value of the Euro currency over time. Germany’s economy seems to also be a major player in relation to the Euro currency. One of the factors differentials in inflation‚ can affect the currency as countries with lower inflation rates would have increases in the value of their currency while countries with higher inflation rates would experience depreciation in their currency. Therefore
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that could be expected from each hedging technique before determining which technique to apply. A futures hedge involves the use of currency futures. To hedge future payables‚ the firm may purchase a currency futures contract for the currency that it will be required. A forward hedge differs from a futures hedge in that forward contracts are used instead of futures contract to lock in the future exchange rate at which the firm will buy or sell a currency .An exposure to exchange rate movements need
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Question: Discuss how an increase in the value of each of the determinants of the option price in the Black-Scholes option pricing model for European options is likely to change the price of a call option. A derivative is a financial instrument that has a value determined by the price of something else‚ such as options. The crucial idea behind the derivation was to hedge perfectly the option by buying and selling the underlying asset in just the right way and consequently "eliminate risk"
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and an undeveloped prime waterfront site. This piece of reclaimed land had been purchased by a company six months earlier at a public auction. Now‚ the owner wanted to dispose of it‚ and hence it was made available to CPL on a first-choice basis through an intermediary. Larry thought CPL could acquire the site and develop it into another Grade A office building in Central — he planned to call it “Citic Tower II”. The asking price of the land was HK$1 billion‚ and the estimated scale of the building
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US Green shoe option Wilhelm (1999) lists three existing instruments of price stabilization in IPOs available in the US. The first one is the stabilizing bid: a bid posted by the underwriter at a price close to the offer price and properly identified as a stabilization bid. This mechanism‚ the only one regulated by the SEC‚ makes the action of the underwriter totally transparent to the market. The second mechanism involves penalties to syndicate members whose costumers flip shares in the first days
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1.3 EXPLAIN THE POST – 16 OPTIONS FOR YOUNG POPLE AND ADULTS POST 16 – OPTIONS Post 16 options are given to young people and adults after they finish year 11 from school. Each post-16 option offers you different qualification opportunities and a different mix of teaching methods and assessment. Post 16 options comprises on: STUDY FULLL TIME 6th form or college Take up an Apprenticeship‚ Traineeship or Supported internship Take a part-time education or training course if you are employed
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inherent in the option investment strategies‚ please perform the following analyses for call and put options on Lotus’s common stock that mature in February 1994 and that have an exercise price of $55 per share. a. Compute net profits and losses per share (actual dollar profit and losses‚ not rates of return) at expiration (February 19‚ 1994) for the following investment strategies: Buying a call option on Lotus’s stock; Writing a call option on Lotus’s common stock; Buying a put option on Lotus’s
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Question 1 What were the origins of the Asian currency crisis? In mid 1997‚ a financial crisis gripped most of the Asian countries and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to a financial contagion‚ a scenario that initially affects only a particular region of the economy that spreads to other countries whose economies were healthy‚ much like a transmitted disease. See‚ Asia attracted almost half the total capital inflow into developing countries because of the high interest rates
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Parliament passed the Currency Act of 1764 which terminated the making of paper money for the colonies. Colonist were subjected to only use gold and silver. But there wasn’t any gold or silver mines in America which caused a shortage of currency. So the only way the colonist could obtain gold and silver is to trade with England. This was only to ensure a profit for themselves. The Currency Act threatened to destabilize the colonial economy. Another act passed by Parliament that helped destabilize
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