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Some New Results on When Extra Risk Strictly Increases an Option's Value

✍ Scribed by James Huang; Deyuan Zhang


Book ID
102842714
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
502 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
0270-7314

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✦ Synopsis


In this paper, we present some new results on when extra risk strictly increases an option's value. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a mean‐preserving spread to strictly increase an option's value. We also give a necessary and sufficient condition for a risk change to strictly increase the values of options with strike prices in an open interval while preserving the values of all other options. These two results significantly improve the results given by Rasmusen (2007) (When does extra risk strictly increase an option's value? Review of Financial Studies, 20, 1647–1667). © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 33:44–54, 2013