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Yale University

Options Markets - Introduction to Pricing, Exchanges, and Applications

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This course introduces options markets, covering contract vocabulary, exchanges, put-call parity, and the Black-Scholes approach to pricing and volatility. It also examines options on home prices as a risk-management application.

Syllabus

- Chapter 1. Options Vocabulary and the 1720 Stock Market Crash
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- Chapter 2. The Standardization and Logic of Options: Options Exchanges
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- Chapter 3. The Put-Call Parity Relation
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- Chapter 4. Pricing an Option: The Black-Scholes Formula
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- Chapter 5. Accounting for Volatility in the Black-Scholes Formula
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- Chapter 6. Options on Home Prices as Risk Management
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