Estimate demand function to understand initial product pricing vs. quantity. Use derivative for the revenue equation to find marginal revenue changes. Marginal revenue derivative is a tool to guide ...

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The FD= and FDHESSIAN= options specify the use of finite difference approximations of the derivatives. The FD= option specifies that all derivatives are approximated using function evaluations, and ...

Ever since the seminal contributions of Bruno Dupire (1994) and Emanuel Derman and Iraj Kani (1994), who independently developed a discrete-time binomial tree version of the same result, it has been ...

TOO MANY EXPERIENCED fund managers claim there's no need for derivatives at all: too many impressionable, usually quantitatively orientated, young analysts claim derivatives are indispensable. Both ...