he recent introduction of options on agricultural futures has fueled a growing T research interest on issues ranging from risk-return characteristics of option hedging strategies to the valuation of commodity options. Valuation models for options on common stocks have been extensively used ever sinc
Pricing options on agricultural futures: An application of the constant elasticity of variance option pricing model
โ Scribed by Jin W. Choi; Francis A. Longstaff
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 570 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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## Abstract Much of the work on real options assumes that the underlying state variable follows a geometric Brownian motion with constant volatility. This paper uses a more general assumption for the state variable process that better captures the empirical regularities found in commodity markets.
Pricing and the Effect of an ## Anticipated Price Change Avner Wolf is article commodity examines theoretical aspects of Black's (1976) pricing formula of r options and the effect on the option's premium of an anticipated future drift in the futures price. In the first part, we derive the formula
where c is the price of a European call option on the underlying futures
ecent theoretical research has developed two valuation models for pricing R options on futures contracts-a European version, and a more complex American variant. The purpose of this article is to compare the pricing behavior of the two models and develop some implications for the use of European mod