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SAC
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Option pricing under model and parameter uncertainty using predictive densities
The theoretical price of a financial option is given by the expectation of its discounted expiry time payoff. The computation of this expectation depends on the density of the val...
F. Oliver Bunnin, Yike Guo, Yuhe Ren
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Approximating Free Exercise Boundaries for American-Style Options Using Simulation and Optimization
Monte Carlo simulation can be readily applied to asset pricing problems with multiple state variables and possible path dependencies because convergence of Monte Carlo methods is ...
Barry R. Cobb, John M. Charnes
CORR
2002
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
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
FS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Hedging variance options on continuous semimartingales
We find robust model-free hedges and price bounds for options on the realized variance of [the returns on] an underlying price process. Assuming only that the underlying process ...
Peter Carr, Roger Lee
ISIPTA
2003
IEEE
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13 years 10 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