Options Pricing Models 1
In 1973 two professors, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, published a pioneering mathematical model for pricing equity option contracts. The formulation of this model facilitated the introduction of listed option contracts and the simultaneous creation of listed option exchanges. The "Black-Scholes" option pricing model was immediately embraced as a standard for evaluating risk as it pertains to option pricing, and in 1997 earned two of its creators the Nobel Prize for Economics. Though many other pricing models are in use today, almost all of them build on the concepts of the original Black-Scholes model, which when devised focused on the pricing of European-style option contracts.