Context:
I'm given Black and Scholes model.
Problem:
For $T > 1$ the asset returns $$Y_T = \ln(S_T)\cdot 1_{S_T>1} $$
where $S_t$ is solution for Black and Scholes model:
$$S_t = S_0 \cdot exp[(\mu - \frac{\sigma^2}{2})t +\sigma W_t]$$
$W_t$ is Wiener process and $1_{S_T>1} = 1$ if $S_T>1$ and $1_{S_T>1} = 0$ otherwise.
It is given that today $t$ is equal to $1$.
Evaluate the current price $Y_1$.
Can you give some ideas?
Ito's Lemma is the answer here. First note that $S_t$ is an Ito's Process:
$$ S_t:= S_0 + \int_{h=0}^{h=t} \left( \mu S_h \right)dh + \int_{h=0}^{h=t} \left( \sigma S_h \right)dW_h $$
The solution to the above equation is indeed: $S_t=S_0e^{(\mu-0.5\sigma^2)t+\sigma W_t}$
Since $S_t$ is an Ito Process, Ito's Lemma states that for any ("well-behaved", twice differentiable) function $F()$ of $S_t$ and $t$, the function $F(S_t,t)$ follows the process:
$$F(S_t,t)= F(S_0,t_0) + \int_{h=0}^{h=t}\left(\frac{\partial F}{\partial t}+\frac{\partial F}{\partial S}a(S_h,h)_{=\mu S_h}+\frac{1}{2}\frac{\partial^2 F}{\partial S^2}b(S_h,h)^2_{=\sigma^2 S_h^2}\right)dh + \int_{h=0}^{h=t}\left(\frac{\partial F}{\partial S}b(S_h,h)_{=\sigma S_h}\right)dW_h $$
Taking $F(S_t,t)=ln(S_t)$, we get:
$$F(S_t,t)= ln(S_0) + \int_{h=0}^{h=t}\left(0+\frac{1}{S_h}a(S_h,h)_{=\mu S_h}-\frac{1}{2}\frac{1}{S_h^2}b(S_h,h)^2_{=\sigma^2 S_h^2}\right)dh + \int_{h=0}^{h=t}\left(\frac{1}{S_h}b(S_h,h)_{=\sigma S_h}\right)dW_h=\\=ln(S_0) + \int_{h=0}^{h=t}\left(\mu-\frac{1}{2}\sigma^2\right)dh + \int_{h=0}^{h=t}\left(\sigma \right)dW_h=\\=ln(S_0)+(\mu - 0.5 \sigma^2)t + \sigma W_t$$
(taking exp on both sides of the above will actually give the solution $S_t=S_0e^{(\mu-0.5\sigma^2)t+\sigma W_t}$ to the original GBM SDE for $S_t$.)
The equations above give valid price processes under the real world measure $\mathbb{P}$. If we want to price the claim under the risk-neutral measure $\mathbb{Q}$ (associated with the money market Numeraire), we'll need to perform a change of measure, using the following Radon-Nikodym derivative:
$$\frac{d\mathbb{Q}}{d\mathbb{P}}=exp\left\{0.5\left(\frac{\mu-r}{\sigma}\right)^2 t-W_t\left(\frac{\mu-r}{\sigma}\right)\right\}$$
Applying the above R-N to the stock price process under $\mathbb{P}$ will result in the change of the drift in the stock price process from $\mu$ to $r$ and will give the price process under $\mathbb{Q}$, which is what we need for pricing.
Now the actual problem (everything below is under the measure $\mathbb{Q}$, I assume we had applied the R-N derivative as above to the price process of the Stock):
$$Y_T = \ln(S_T) \mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}$$
Given some initial state $S_0$, the above can be re-written using what we derived above for $ln(S_t)$:
$$\ln(S_T) \mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}=\left(ln(S_0)+(r - 0.5 \sigma^2)T + \sigma W_T\right)\mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}$$
Given some initial state at time $t_1=1$, instead of $t_0 = 0$, we can rewrite the above simply as:
$$\ln(S_T) \mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}=\left(ln(S_1)+(r - 0.5 \sigma^2)(T-1) + \sigma W(T-1)\right)\mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}$$
We are interested in the (risk-neutral) price of this claim (given the initial state at $t=1$); the price at time $t_1$ is (by definition) computed as the discounted, risk-neutral expectation under the measure $\mathbb{Q}$ of the pay-off at maturity, as follows:
$$ Y(t_1):=e^{-r(T-1)}\mathbb{E}^{\mathbb{Q}}\left[\ln(S_T) \mathbb{I}_{S_T>1} | \mathcal{F}_{t_1} \right]$$
Substituting in for $ln(S_T)$, we get:
$$e^{-r(T-1)}\mathbb{E}^{\mathbb{Q}}\left[\left(ln(S_1)+(r - 0.5 \sigma^2)(T-1) + \sigma W(T-1)\right)\mathbb{I}_{S_T>1} | \mathcal{F}_{t_1} \right] =\\= e^{-r(T-1)}\mathbb{E}_1^{\mathbb{Q}}[ln(S_1)\mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}]+\mathbb{E}_1^{\mathbb{Q}}[(r - 0.5 \sigma^2)(T-1)\mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}] + \mathbb{E}_1^{\mathbb{Q}}[\sigma W(T-1)\mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}]$$
Now term by term:
$$ \mathbb{E}_1^{\mathbb{Q}}[ln(S_1)\mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}]=ln(S_1)\mathbb{P}^{\mathbb{Q}}(S_T>1)=ln(S_1)\mathbb{P}^{\mathbb{Q}}(S_1e^{(r-0.5 \sigma^2)(T-1)+\sigma W(T-1)}>1)=\\= ln(S_1)\mathbb{P}^{\mathbb{Q}}\left(Z>\frac{ln\left(\frac{1}{S_1}\right)-r(T-1)+0.5 \sigma^2 (T-1)}{\sigma \sqrt{T-1}}\right)=\\=ln(S_1)\mathbb{P}^{\mathbb{Q}}\left(Z<\frac{ln(S_1)+r(T-1)-0.5 \sigma^2 (T-1)}{\sigma \sqrt{T-1}}\right):=ln(S_1)\Phi(d)$$
Where: $d:=\frac{ln(S_1)+r(T-1)-0.5 \sigma^2 (T-1)}{\sigma \sqrt{T-1}}$ and $\Phi$ is the standard Normal CDF.
The second term then evaluates to:
$$\mathbb{E}_1^{\mathbb{Q}}[(r - 0.5 \sigma^2)(T-1)\mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}]=(r - 0.5 \sigma^2)(T-1)\Phi(d)$$
For the last term, I will use the fact that $$\mathbb{P}^{\mathbb{Q}}(S_T>1)=\Phi(d)$$ and the fact that:
$$\mathbb{E}_1^{\mathbb{Q}}[\sigma W(T-1)\mathbb{I}_{S_T>1}]=\sigma \left(\sqrt{T-1}\right) \mathbb{E}_1^{\mathbb{Q}}[Z \mathbb{I}_{Z<d}]=\\=\sigma \left(\sqrt{T-1}\right) \int_{-\infty}^{d}h\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}exp\left\{\frac{-h^2}{2} \right\}dh:=\sigma \left(\sqrt{T-1}\right) f(d) $$
The final answer should then be:
$$Y(t_1)=e^{-r(T-1)}\left(ln(S_1)\Phi(d)+(r - 0.5 \sigma^2)(T-1)\Phi(d)+\sigma \left(\sqrt{T-1}\right) f(d)\right)$$