A charitable organization has issued a bond that gives the holder the option to cash in the principal as either £10,000 or €20,000. This asset can be viewed as a £10,000 bond plus a call on €20,000 with a strike price K=0.5£/€
a) Can the bond also be viewed as a € bond plus an option?
b) Explain how the two equivalent views are just an application of the Put-Call parity
c) Suppose that you observe the following:
The price of a call option on the European Euro (€) is 0.055 $/€. The price of a put option on the € is 0.045 $/€. Both options have 135 days left to expiration and a strike price of 0.85 $/€. The current spot rate is 0.89 $/€. The $-risk free rate is 3.5% and the €-risk free rate is 3.75%.
i) Is there an arbitrage opportunity? Why?
ii) Calculate the arbitrage profits and show the arbitrage transactions and corresponding cash flows at t=0 (now) and at t=T=135 days later.