Academics rework Black-Scholes options pricing model to make it crash-proof
The Nobel Prize-winning options pricing model has been unable to cope with more sophisticated financial markets and avert crashes.
Nevil Gibson Mon, 06 Mar 2017
Two academics have reworked a common investment valuation model so it can cope with conditions in today’s fast-moving financial markets.
The Black-Scholes model was first developed in 1973 and in 1997 it won a Nobel Prize in economics for developing a way to price an options contract before it