The Black–Scholes–Merton Model as an Idealization of Discrete-Time Economies (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. Finitely many states and dates; 3. Countinuous time and the Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) Model; 4. BSM as an idealization of binomial-random-walk economies; 5. Random walks that are not binomial; 6. Barlow's example; 7. The Potzelberger-Schlumprecht example and asymptotic arbitrage; 8. Concluding remarks, Part I: how robust an idealization is BSM?; 9. Concluding remarks, Part II: continuous-time models as idealizations of discrete time; Appendix.