Markov-Switching models and resultant equity implied volatility surfaces: a South African application

Includes bibliographical references. === Standard Geometric Brownian Motion is the stock model underlying Black-Scholes famous option pricing formula. There are however numerous problems with this stock model as certain features do not follow some empirical stylised facts we see from the observation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fairbrother, Mark
Other Authors: Becker, Ronald
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10450