Option Pricing with Stochastic Volatility and Jump Diffusion Processes

Option pricing by the use of Black Scholes Merton (BSM) model is based on the assumption that asset prices have a lognormal distribution. In spite of the use of these models on a large scale, both by practioners and academics, the assumption of lognormality is rejected by the history of returns. The...

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Main Author: Radu Lupu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2006-03-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access: http://store.ectap.ro/articole/65.pdf