The Pricing of Marked-to-Market Contingent Claims in a No-Arbitrage Economy

AUSTRALIAN J. OF MANAGEMENT

Posted: 4 Jul 1997

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Stephen E. Satchell

University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics and Politics

Richard C. Stapleton

University of Strathclyde - Department of Accounting and Finance

Marti G. Subrahmanyam

New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Abstract

This paper assumes that the underlying asset prices are lognormally distributed, and derives necessary and sufficient conditions for the valuation of options using a Black-Scholes type methodology. It is shown that the price of a futures-style, marked-to-market option is given by Black's formula if the pricing kernel is lognormally distributed. Assuming that this condition is fulfilled, it is then shown that the Black-Scholes formula prices a spot- settled contingent claim, if the interest-rate accumulation factor is lognormally distributed. Otherwise, the Black- Scholes formula holds if the product of the pricing kernel and the interest-rate accumulation factor is lognormally distributed.

JEL Classification: G13, G12

Suggested Citation

Satchell, Stephen E. and Stapleton, Richard C. and Subrahmanyam, Marti G., The Pricing of Marked-to-Market Contingent Claims in a No-Arbitrage Economy. AUSTRALIAN J. OF MANAGEMENT, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=8399

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