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Using GMM to flatten the option volatility smile

✍ Scribed by Tom Arnold

Book ID
113877697
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
161 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0275-5319

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