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Analytical Bounds for Treasury Bond Futures Prices
The pricing of delivery options, particularly timing options, in Treasury bond futures is prohibitively expensive. Recursive use of the lattice model is unavoidable for valuing such options, as Boyle (1989) demon...
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Nonparametric Bounds for European Option Prices
There is much research whose efforts have been devoted to discovering the distributional defects in the Black-Scholes model, which are known to cause severe biases. However, with a free specification for the d...
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Credit Derivatives
Credit derivatives are instruments used to measure, manage, and transfer credit risk. Recently, there has been an explosive growth in the use of these instruments in the financial markets. This article reviews...
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Credit Risk Modeling: A General Framework
The two well-known approaches for credit risk modeling, structural and reduced form approaches, have their advantages and disadvantages. Due to the fundamentally different assumptions of the two approaches, th...
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Implementing a Multifactor Term Structure Model
In this paper, we describe the methodology of how to implement a multifactor Cox–Ingersoll–Ross (CIR) models for the term structure of interest rates and its derivatives. We demonstrate how to calibrate the mo...
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Displaced Log Normal and Lognormal American Option Pricing: A Comparison
This paper compares the American option prices with one known dividend under two alternative specifications of the underlying stock price: displaced log normal and log normal processes. Many option pricing mod...
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Dividends Versus Reinvestments in Continuous Time: A More General Model
We present a continuous-time model of asset valuation in which the generated income follows a stochastic process, and the asset-owner allocates this income between reinvestment and payout. The income generatin...
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Are Tails Fat Enough to Explain Smile
It has been well documented that using the Black-Scholes model to price options with different strikes generates the so-called volatility smile. Many previous papers have attributed the smile to the normality ...
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A Constant Elasticity of Variance (CEV) Family of Stock Price Distributions in Option Pricing, Review, and Integration
One of the important issues in option pricing is to find a stock return distribution that allows the stock rate of return and its volatility to depend on each other. Cox’s (Notes on option pricing I: constant ...
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Credit derivatives
Credit derivatives are instruments used to measure, manage, and transfer credit risk. Recently, there has been an explosive growth in the use of these instruments in the financial markets. This article reviews...