Valuation of American options in the presence of event risk
โ Scribed by Alex Szimayer
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0949-2984
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