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3.7 Exercises

* 3.01 Price estimate for a European call.
* 3.02 Convergence study using trees.
* 3.03 American put calculated with a tree.
* 3.04 Stock option with a dividend yield.
* 3.05 Stock option with transaction costs.
* 3.06 Bond option with forward contracts.
* 3.07 Convertible bond option.
* 3.08 Forecast mean and bounds for a share price.
* 3.09 Binomial tree for bonds.

All these problems can be edited and submitted for correction by selecting WORK:assignments on the course main page. They generally open with a template that provides useful advice and guidance to derive the solution. The color coding corresponds to the expected level of difficulty:

* Easy.
The problem is a direct application of the theory in a situation of practical interest: solutions typically combine text without formulas, ASCII plots and parameters of the VMARKET applet without any programming.
* Moderate. generally be solved with a short analytical derivation, a discussion of the result, a plot parametric dependencies.
* Difficult. The problem is an extension of the material discussed in the syllabus and requires a good command of the mathematical language, which can be expected for university graduates from quantitative fields.

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