Market-Conform Valuation of Options
By: Herwig, Tobias [author.].
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BookSeries: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems: 5714Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.Description: VIII, 106 p. 10 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783540308386.Subject(s): Finance | Economics, Mathematical | Macroeconomics.1 | Finance.2 | Finance, general.2 | Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.2 | Quantitative Finance.2DDC classification: 332 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Construction of Arbitrage-Free Implied Trees: A New Approach -- Market-Conform Option Valuation: An Empirical Assessment of Alternative Approaches -- Market-Conform Valuation of American-Style Options via Monte Carlo Simulation -- Synopsis.
1. 1 The Area of Research In this thesis, we will investigate the 'market-conform' pricing of newly issued contingent claims. A contingent claim is a derivative whose value at any settlement date is determined by the value of one or more other underlying assets, e. g. , forwards, futures, plain-vanilla or exotic options with European or American-style exercise features. Market-conform pricing means that prices of existing actively traded securities are taken as given, and then the set of equivalent martingale measures that are consistent with the initial prices of the traded securities is derived using no-arbitrage arguments. Sometimes in the literature other expressions are used for 'market-conform' valuation - 'smile-consistent' valuation or 'fair-market' valuation - that describe the same basic idea. The seminal work by Black and Scholes (1973) (BS) and Merton (1973) mark a breakthrough in the problem of hedging and pricing contingent claims based on no-arbitrage arguments. Harrison and Kreps (1979) provide a firm mathematical foundation for the Black-Scholes- Merton analysis. They show that the absence of arbitrage is equivalent to the existence of an equivalent martingale measure. Under this mea� sure the normalized security price process forms a martingale and so securities can be valued by taking expectations. If the securities market is complete, then the equivalent martingale measure and hence the price of any security are unique.
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