Primbs, James; Rathinam, Muruhan; Yamada, Yuji - In: Applied Mathematical Finance 14 (2007) 1, pp. 1-17
This paper analyzes a pentanomial lattice model for option pricing that incorporates skewness and kurtosis of the underlying asset. The lattice is constructed using a moment matching procedure, and explicit positivity conditions for branch probabilities are provided in terms of skewness and...