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Warrant Pricing: Jump-Diffusion vs. Black-Scholes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Joseph W. Kremer and
Rodney L. Roenfeldt
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Abstract

This paper investigates the warrant pricing abilities of dilution-adjusted versions of the Black-Scholes and Jump-Diffusion option pricing models. Because of the typically long lives of warrants, their pricing is hypothesized to benefit from use of the Jump-Diffusion model, which relaxes the Black-Scholes restriction against stock price jumps. Empirical results indicate that while the Black-Scholes model almost uniformly provides more efficient estimates, the Jump-Diffusion model generally provides less biased estimates of market value. Particularly for the valuation of out-of-the-money warrants and warrants on stocks with a history of large and/or frequent jumps, the Jump-Diffusion model may be preferred.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , June 1993, pp. 255 - 272
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1993

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