Essays about: "the black-scholes model"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 77 essays containing the words the black-scholes model.
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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. Stochastic Runge–Kutta Lawson Schemes for European and Asian Call Options Under the Heston Model
University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : This thesis investigated Stochastic Runge–Kutta Lawson (SRKL) schemes and their application to the Heston model. Two distinct SRKL discretization methods were used to simulate a single asset’s dynamics under the Heston model, notably the Euler–Maruyama and Midpoint schemes. READ MORE
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3. Artificial Intelligence for Option Pricing
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för matematiska vetenskaperAbstract : This thesis addresses the issue of vulnerable underlying assumptions used in option pricing methodology. More precisely; underlying assumptions made on the financial assets and markets make option pricing theory vulnerable to changes in the financial framework. READ MORE
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4. 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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5. Bermudan Option Pricing using Almost-Exact Scheme under Heston-type Models
University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : Black and Scholes have proposed a model for pricing European options where the underlying asset follows a so-called geometric Brownian motion which assumes constant volatility. The proposed Black-Scholes model has an exact solution. READ MORE