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Options on infectious diseases

Computational Finance 2020-03-26 v3

Abstract

We present a parsimonious stochastic model for valuation of options on the fraction of infected individuals during an epidemic. The underlying stochastic dynamical system is a stochastic differential version of the SIR model of mathematical epidemiology.

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@article{arxiv.2003.07992,
  title  = {Options on infectious diseases},
  author = {Andrew Lesniewski and Nicholas Lesniewski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07992},
  year   = {2020}
}

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