“Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.”

— Michael Lewis , book The Big Short

Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter Five, Accidental Capitalists, p. 113

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