Friday, November 18, 2005

Black Scholes: Dividend Payments

One way to think about modifiying B/S for dividend payments is to reduce the current share price by the PV of the dividends paid during the option's life and use this amount in place of the actual S in the model.

There is also a way to adjust the B/S model itself to accomodate dividend payments.

This post was to help me clarify a lunch-time conversation about GMDB hedging.

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