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Option pricing models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

D. Blake
Affiliation:
City University Business School, London

Abstract

The paper discusses two important models of option pricing: the binomial model and the Black—Scholes model. It begins with a brief description of options.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1989

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