An option pricing approach to the estimation of downside risk: a European cross-country study

The purpose of this paper is to undertake a comparative study of the costs of downside protection for investors in the four major European stock markets: UK, Germany, France and Italy, and to investigate the time diversification effects in these markets by examining the variation of this cost as the...

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Main Author: Alles, Lakshman
Format: Journal Article
Published: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26293