Thursday, March 20, 2008

Is Black-Scholes a Black Hole?

From Portfolio.com, an article about the potential problems with the underlying assumptions and use of the ubiquitous Black-Scholes model. Fits right in with what we discussed in the UIUC graduate minicourse in Financial Mathematics earlier this semester: real-world distributions tend to have fatter tails than normal distributions.

- Rick

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