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A committee of risk management practitioners discusses the difference between pricing deep out-of-the-money call options on FBX stock and pricing deep out-of-the-money call options on the EUR/JPY foreign exchange rate using the Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) model. The practitioners price these options based on two distinct probability distributions of underlying asset prices at the option expiration date:
A lognormal probability distribution
An implied risk-neutral probability distribution obtained from the volatility smile for options of the same maturity
Using the lognormal instead of the implied risk-neutral probability distribution will tend to:
A
Price the option on FBX relatively high and price the option on EUR/JPY relatively low.
B
Price the option on FBX relatively low and price the option on EUR/JPY relatively low.
C
Price the option on FBX relatively low and price the option on EUR/JPY relatively high.
D
Price the option on FBX relatively high and price the option on EUR/JPY relatively high.