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Zbl 1092.91524
Black, Fischer; Scholes, Myron
The pricing of options and corporate liabilities. (English)
[J] J. Political Econ. 81, 637-654 (1973).

Authors' summary: ``If options are correctly priced in the market, it should not be possible to make sure profits by creating portfolios of long and short positions in options and their underlying stocks. Using this principle, a theoretical valuation formula for options is derived. Since almost all corporate liabilities can be viewed as combinations of options, the formula and the analysis that led to it are also applicable to corporate liabilities such as common stock, corporate bonds, and warrants. In particular, the formula can be used to derive the discount that should be applied to a corporate bond because of the possibility of default.'' The article is arguably one of the most important papers within finance theory to date and allows us to price various derivatives, including options on commodities, financial assets and even pricing of employee stock options. Following loosely on a PhD thesis written by University of Chicago student James Boness, they developed an analytical model which we now know; The Black-Scholes Option Pricing formula, used as a closed form solution to price European vanilla options. Merton and Scholes received the 1997 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their work; Black died in 1995.

MSC 2000:: *91G10

Cited in: Zbl 1229.91317 Zbl 1221.91001 Zbl 1182.91179 Zbl 1152.62074 Zbl 1142.91528 Zbl 1157.60067 Zbl 1145.91342 Zbl 1185.91161 Zbl 1100.91048 Zbl 1034.01023 Zbl 1063.91513 Zbl 0885.65006 Zbl 0862.93044 Zbl 0900.76709 Zbl 1153.91507 Zbl 0587.90005 Zbl 0554.60078

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