Crude for immediate delivery costs ₹7,000/bbl. Storage costs ₹15/bbl per month, paid at the end of each month. The rupee rate is 5.5%. (a) Derive the no-arbitrage upper bound on the three-month futures price, stating the arbitrage strategy if it is violated. (b) Compute it. (c) Show that if storage is instead charged in kind at a proportional rate , the bound is , and find the that gives the same three-month bound as (b).
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Storage as a rupee cost
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