1. The current price of a non-dividend paying asset is $65, the riskless interest rate is 5% p.a. continuously compounded, and the option maturity is five years. What is the lower boundary for the value of a European vanilla put option on this asset with strike price of $80?
2. The Bell Weather Co. is a new firm in a rapidly growing industry. The company is planning on increasing its annual dividend by 17 percent a year for the next 4 years and then decreasing the growth rate to 3 percent per year. The company just paid its annual dividend in the amount of $1.70 per share. What is the current value of one share of this stock if the required rate of return is 7.20 percent?