A Necessary and Sufficient Condition to Rule Out Arbitrage Profits $\gt$

question 21

Multiple Choice

A necessary and sufficient condition to rule out arbitrage profits in the binomial tree is that the following must hold:

• A) "up factor \(\gt\) down factor \(\gt\) dollar return" [U \(\gt\) D \(\gt\) (1 + R)]
• B) U\(\gt\)(1 +R)\(\gt\) D
• C) (1 + R)=U \(\gt\) D
• D) (1 + R)=(U + D)/2
• E) None of these answers are correct.

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