This paper reexamines the relationship between investors' preferences and the binomial option pricing model of Cox, Ross, and Rubinstein (CRR). It is shown that the independence of the binomial option pricing model from investors' preferences is a result of a special choice of binomial...

A well known problem in finance is the absence of a closed form solution for volatility in common option pricing models. Several approaches have been developed to provide closed form approximations to volatility. This paper examines Chance's (1993, 1996) model, Corrado and Miller's (1996) model...

This article derives and tests a multiple-factor extension of the M-square model (see Fong and Vasicek [1984] and Fong and Fabozzi [1985]), termed as the M-vector model. Tests of the M-square model indicate that the model reduces the interest rate risk inherent in the traditional duration model...