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The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities

in Papers I Remember by Graham Pickersgill

The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities on “Papers I Remember”, a list by Graham Pickersgill on TheLysts.

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The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities
Authors
Fischer Black, Myron Scholes
Field
Financial economics
Key idea
Introduces the Black–Scholes model, showing how to price options via continuous-time hedging and arbitrage arguments.
Year
1973
My take
The first time I saw the PDE I thought, ‘Fair enough, I’ll just stay in motor claims.’ Still, it’s the backbone of half the spreadsheets in the City.