Pricing financial derivatives: The impact of business conditions and systematic risk

This thesis comprises of three essays on the pricing of financial derivatives. In the first essay, we assess the return fitting and option valuation performance of generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) models. We compare component versus GARCH(1,1) models, affine versus n...

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Main Author: Dorion, Christian
Other Authors: Kris J J Jacobs (Supervisor2)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2010
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95114