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Three years after the seminal work of Black and Scholes on the pricing of European options, Scholes presented a paper in which the impact of taxation on the value of an option is analyzed. We restart this discussion in a simple binomial setting emphasizing the economic principles of replicating...
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We quantify the effects on contingent claim valuation of using an estimator for the volatility of a geometric Brownian … problem uses a direct estimator of volatility based on the sample standard deviation of increments from the underlying … Brownian motion. After substituting into the GBM the direct volatility estimator for the true, but unknown, value of the …
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increasing in the volatility of demand they face, decreasing in the air premium they must pay, and increasing in the … firms with a real option to smooth demand volatility on international markets, and we provide simple calculations of that …
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volatility on foreign exchange markets. Starting point is the market participant's microeconomic investment decision, which is … trading volume and volatility on foreign exchange markets. We apply various two-country-models with representative market …
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into volatility persistence in stock returns. In part two, I show that the introduction of continuous trading on the WSE is … volatility on days after limit hits and positive autocorrelation in stock returns. I do not find significant advantages of this …
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Mit vorliegender Arbeit wird versucht, die Validit?t des Black/Scholes- und des Barone-Adesi/Whaley-Optionsbewertungsmodells, bezogen auf ein breites Spektrum der in Deutschland b?rsennotierten Optionsscheine auf den wichtigsten nationalen Aktienindex, den Deutschen Aktienindex DAX, theoretisch...
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We consider the problem of efficient estimation of tail probabilities of sums of correlated lognormals via simulation. This problem is motivated by the tail analysis of portfolios of assets driven by correlated Black-Scholes models. We propose two estimators that can be rigorously shown to be...
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The main goal of this dissertation was to obtain an understanding as to the true economic nature of employee share options and the problems surrounding the accounting thereof.The main conclusion of this study is that employee share options should be expensed in the income statement as and when...
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Popular ways of hedging downside risk of a stock portfolio is by means of a constant proportion portfolio insurance …
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volatility dynamics and resulting factor hedging of barrier options. … resultierende Faktor-Hedging von Barrier Optionen gerichtet. …
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