Explain Why It Is Impossible To Derive An Analytical Formula For Valuing American Puts.
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Explain Why It Is Impossible to Derive An Analytical Formula For Valuing American
Explain why it has proved impossible to derive an analytical formula for valuing
American Puts, and outline the main techniques that are used to produce
approximate valuations for such securities
Investing in stock op ....
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.... options. Nonetheless it has been proved by academics that it is
impossible to derive an analytical formula for valuing American put options and
the reason why will be discussed in this paper as well as some main suggested
techniques that are used to value them.
According to Hull, exercising an American put option on a non-dividend-paying
stock early if it is sufficiently deeply in the money can be an optimal practice.
For example, suppose that the strike price of an American opti ....
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