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Review of Financial Studies Vol. 2 No. 2 1989

The Multinomial Option Pricing Model and its Brownian and Poisson Limits

Dilip B. Madan; Frank Milne; Hersh Shefrin

Abstract

[The Cox, Ross, and Rubinstein binomial model is generalized to the multinomial case. Limits are investigated and shown to yield the Black-Scholes formula in the case of continuous sample paths for a wide variety of complete market structures. In the discontinuous case a Merton-type formula is shown to result, provided jump probabilities are replaced by their corresponding Arrow-Debreu prices.]

Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
251-265
Sources
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