Option Pricing on Renewable Commodity Markets

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Option Pricing on Renewable Commodity Markets

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Lence, Sergio H.
Hayes, Dermot J.

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The paper motivates and proposes a closed-form option-pricing model for markets such as grains or livestock where the price level can be expected to revert to expected production costs. The model suggests that traditional option pricing models will overprice long-term options on these markets.

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Paper provided by Iowa State University, Department of Economics in its series Staff General Research Papers with number 4093.

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- Sergio H. Lence & Dermot J. Hayes, 2002. "Option Pricing on Renewable Commodity Markets," Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications 02-wp309, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University. [Downloadable!]
- Lence, Sergio H. & Hayes, Dermot, 2002. "Option Pricing On Renewable Commodity Markets," 2002 Conference, April 22-23, 2002, St. Louis, Missouri 19053, NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management. [Downloadable!]

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-AGR-2002-10-27 (Agricultural Economics)
NEP-ALL-2002-08-16 (All new papers)
NEP-ENE-2002-08-16 (Energy Economics)
NEP-FIN-2002-08-16 (Finance)

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