How the Greeks would have hedged correlation risk of foreign exchange options
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The author shows how to compute correlation coefficients in an ndimensional geometric Brownian motion model for foreign exchange rates, interprets the result geometrically and applies it to eliminate correlation risk when trading multi-asset options
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تاریخ انتشار 2000