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CORR
2002
Springer
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An Empirical Model for Volatility of Returns and Option Pricing
In a seminal paper in 1973, Black and Scholes argued how expected distributions of stock prices can be used to price options. Their model assumed a directed random motion for the ...
Joseph L. McCauley, Gemunu H. Gunaratne
HPCS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Parallel Lattice Implementation for Option Pricing under Mixed State-Dependent Volatility Models
— With the principal goal of developing an alternative, relatively simple and tractable pricing framework for accurately reproducing a market implied volatility surface, this pap...
Giuseppe Campolieti, Roman Makarov
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Modeling volatility in prediction markets
There is significant experimental evidence that prediction markets are efficient mechanisms for aggregating information and are more accurate in forecasting events than tradition...
Nikolay Archak, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
A Note on Pricing Options on Defaultable Stocks
In this note, we show that simple models that explicitly accounts for the market participants’ fear that the stock prices will plunge, is capable of explaining the implied volat...
Erhan Bayraktar
ISIPTA
2003
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
A Sensitivity Analysis for the Pricing of European Call Options in a Binary Tree Model
The European call option prices have well-known formulae in the Cox-RossRubinstein model [2], depending on the volatility of the underlying asset. Nevertheless it is hard to give ...
Huguette Reynaerts, Michèle Vanmaele