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The effect of non-ideal market conditions on option pricing

Josep Perello, Jaume Masoliver

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0112033

Abstract

Option pricing is mainly based on ideal market conditions which are well represented by the Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) as market model. We study the effect of non-ideal market conditions on the price of the option. We focus our attention on two crucial aspects appearing in real markets: The influence of heavy tails and the effect of colored noise. We will see that both effects have opposite consequences on option pricing.

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