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The Black–Scholes Options Pricing Model
Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions:
- What are the assumptions made in the Black–Scholes options pricing model?
- What is meant by no-arbitrage options pricing?
- How to calculate the price of a call option using the Black–Scholes model?
- How to calculate the price of a put option using the Black–Scholes model?
- What factors affect the price of call and put options?
- What is implied volatility and how can it be used?
- What is meant by the volatility smile and how can it be used?
BOX 14.1 Nobel Prize in Economics for Scholes and Merton
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