The aim of this paper is to study the problem of optimality of replicating strategies associated with pricing of American contingent claims in the Cox–Ross–Rubinstein model with proportional transaction costs. We show that a replication of the option is always possible. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a replicating strategy which is optimal, and also show an example of an opt...

Research ...nds that ...rms’ investment decisions are distorted by irreversibility and ...nance constraints. Whereas the existing literature examines the e¤ects of these features separately, this paper studies their interaction. The impact of these constraints on a ...rm’s incentive to invest is characterised using option pricing techniques. Financial constraints reduce the initial capacity, ra...

We present new families of lower bounds for the price of the American put option on a dividend paying stock when the stock follows a log normal process and the option can be exercised continuously to a finite horizon . By put call parity, these bounds can be easily converted to bounds on the price of the Ameican call option on a dividend paying stock. By numerically optimizing these bounds, we ...

Given a simple connected undirected graph G = (V , E), the Wiener index W (G) of G is defined as half the sum of the distances d(u, v) between all pairs of vertices u, v of G, where d(u, v) denotes the distance (the number of edges on a shortest path between u and v) between u, v in G. We obtain an expression for W (G), where G is a binomial tree. For Fibonacci trees and binary Fibonacci trees ...

We amend some results in the literature. We verify a formula for the integrity of the binomial tree, and correct formulas for the integrity of the complete k-ary tree. Dedicated to Henda Swart with the greatest thanks.

In the previous studies a hypothesis was developed from the results that the increase in leptin concentrations during the second half of the menstrual cycle may be related to changes in the steroidal milieu during the preovulatory period and the luteal phase. The present study was undertaken to test this hypothesis further by examining the effect of treatment with oestradiol and progesterone on...

Despite its success, the Black-Scholes formula has become increasingly unreliable over time in the very markets where one would expect it to be most accurate. In addition, attempts by financial economists to extract probabilistic information from option prices have been puny in comparison to what is clearly possible. This paper develops a new method for inferring risk-neutral probabilities (or ...