Areal, Nelson; Rodrigues, Artur - In: Quantitative Finance 14 (2014) 10, pp. 1765-1784
This paper studies the effect of discrete dividends on the FTSE-100 index options valuation, following closely Harvey and Whaley's [<italic>J. Fut. Mkts</italic>, 1992, <bold>12</bold>(2), 123-137] study on the S&P-100 index. To the best of our knowledge, no such study has ever been performed on FTSE-100 options, where the...