Essays about: "Black-Scholes option pricing formula"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words Black-Scholes option pricing formula.
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1. The Predictive Power of Implied Volatility in Option Pricing
University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistikAbstract : During the last few years, financial derivatives have been growing in trading volume. There seem to be a high demand and supply of derivatives on the market and one common derivative is the option contract. The option contract is frequently the subject of studies and many different pricing models have been created for options. READ MORE
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2. Swaptions from a Clearinghouse perspective : Hedging swaptions, an option on interest rate swaps, using compression
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för fysikAbstract : With the increasing popularity of interest rate swaps the need to understandswaptions, an option of an interest rate swap, is of great importance. A swap-tion can be used in both speculative purposes and to hedge against changesin interest rates. The most important thing to understand is the pricing for-mula. READ MORE
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3. Monte-Carlo Based Pricing of American Options Using Known Characteristics of the Expected Continuation Value Function
University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistikAbstract : The problem of pricing American stock options is far more complex than pricing European options due to the possibility of early execution. This feature means that the decision to either hold on to the option or exercising it early must be continually evaluated, leading to closed form solutions such as the Black-Scholes Formula to not be applicable on American options written on dividend paying assets. READ MORE
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4. Option Pricing using the Fast Fourier Transform Method
University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : The fast Fourier transform (FFT), even though it has been widely applicable in Physics and Engineering, it has become attractive in Finance as well for it’s enhancement of computational speed. Carr and Madan succeeded in implementing the FFT for pricing of an option. READ MORE
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5. Implied Volatility Surface Approximation under a Two-Factor Stochastic Volatility Model
University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : Due to recent research disproving old claims in financial mathematics such as constant volatility in option prices, new approaches have been incurred to analyze the implied volatility, namely stochastic volatility models. The use of stochastic volatility in option pricing is a relatively new and unexplored field of research with a lot of unknowns, where new answers are of great interest to anyone practicing valuation of derivative instruments such as options. READ MORE
