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Pricing Equity Derivatives with Extensions of Black-Scholes

v1.2.0 · Jul 10, 2025 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Algorithms to price American and European equity options, convertible bonds and a variety of other financial derivatives. It uses an extension of the usual Black-Scholes model in which jump to default may occur at a probability specified by a power-law link between stock price and hazard rate as found in the paper by Takahashi, Kobayashi, and Nakagawa (2001) <doi:10.3905/jfi.2001.319302>. We use ideas and techniques from Andersen and Buffum (2002) <doi:10.2139/ssrn.355308> and Linetsky (2006) <doi:10.1111/j.1467-9965.2006.00271.x>.

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Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’ using rmarkdown

Quitting from ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd:424-461 [twitter_cb_via_BondValuation]
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<error/rlang_error>
Error in `if (index_LIPD >= 1) ...`:
! argument is of length zero
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Backtrace:
    ▆
 1. └─BondValuation::AnnivDates(...)
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Error: processing vignette 'ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
argument is of length zero
--- failed re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
ERROR r-oldrel-macos-arm64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
2026-03-23 08:13:33.204 R[33902:192000] XType: Using static font registry.

Quitting from ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd:424-461 [twitter_cb_via_BondValuation]
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<error/rlang_error>
Error in `if (index_LIPD >= 1) ...`:
! argument is of length zero
---
Backtrace:
    ▆
 1. └─BondValuation::AnnivDates(...)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Error: processing vignette 'ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
argument is of length zero
--- failed re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
ERROR r-release-macos-arm64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
2026-04-06 10:55:21.064 R[37170:195746] XType: Using static font registry.

Quitting from ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd:424-461 [twitter_cb_via_BondValuation]
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<error/rlang_error>
Error in `if (index_LIPD >= 1) ...`:
! argument is of length zero
---
Backtrace:
    ▆
 1. └─BondValuation::AnnivDates(...)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Error: processing vignette 'ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
argument is of length zero
--- failed re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

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ERROR 11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 3 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
ERROR r-devel-macos-arm64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’ using rmarkdown

Quitting from ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd:424-461 [twitter_cb_via_BondValuation]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...[truncated]...
in_r.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
argument is of length zero
--- failed re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
ERROR r-release-macos-arm64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
2026-03-11 03:38:23.054 R[19696:634817] XType: Using static font registry.

Quitting from ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd:424-461 [twitter_cb_via_BondValua
...[truncated]...
in_r.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
argument is of length zero
--- failed re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
ERROR r-oldrel-macos-arm64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
2026-03-11 08:22:48.489 R[29498:188131] XType: Using static font registry.

Quitting from ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd:424-461 [twitter_cb_via_BondValua
...[truncated]...
in_r.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
argument is of length zero
--- failed re-building ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘ragtop_convertibles_in_r.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

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Version History

new 1.2.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.1 diff Jul 9, 2025
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1.0 diff Mar 2, 2020
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff May 19, 2019
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.5 diff Dec 14, 2018
new 0.5 Sep 27, 2016