Black-Scholes at 50: how a pricing model for options changed finance
The 1973 paper by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes provided the first widely-used model for calculating the theoretical value of options.
The 1973 paper by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes provided the first widely-used model for calculating the theoretical value of options.
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