Stock Options for Management Scientists

The field of investments presents a large and fertile area for the application of both the theory and the practice of Management Science. There is an obvious economic requirement in investing to make theory and practice meet. This emphasis on practicality has also led to the adoption in the investme...

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Published in:Interfaces (Providence) 1980-02, Vol.10 (1), p.61-63
Main Author: Slivka, Ronald T
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Call options
finance: investment: securities
Financial investments
Financial securities
Management principles
Management science
Options contracts
Stock exchanges
Stock options
Stock prices
Stock shares
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Summary:The field of investments presents a large and fertile area for the application of both the theory and the practice of Management Science. There is an obvious economic requirement in investing to make theory and practice meet. This emphasis on practicality has also led to the adoption in the investment community of sophisticated analytical methods from many sources. With this background in mind and in the hope of stimulating new interest in financial problems among Management Scientists, I have prepared the following brief overview of a topic of intense current interest in the investment community. The topic is stock options.
ISSN:0092-2102
1526-551X
DOI:10.1287/inte.10.1.61