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Louis Scott

Professor Plant Sciences University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Verified email at ufs.ac.za
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Option pricing when the variance changes randomly: Theory, estimation, and an application

LO Scott - Journal of Financial and Quantitative analysis, 1987 - cambridge.org
In this paper, we examine the pricing of European call options on stocks that have variance
rates that change randomly. We study continuous time diffusion processes for the stock …

Pricing stock options in a jump‐diffusion model with stochastic volatility and interest rates: Applications of Fourier inversion methods

LO Scott - Mathematical Finance, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Fast closed form solutions for prices on European stock options are developed in a jump‐diffusion
model with stochastic volatility and stochastic interest rates. The probability functions …

Pricing European currency options: A comparison of the modified Black-Scholes model and a random variance model

M Chesney, L Scott - Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1989 - cambridge.org
We use the modified Black-Scholes model and a random variance option pricing model to
study prices of European currency options traded in Geneva. The options, which cannot be …

Persistent millennial-scale climatic variability over the past 25,000 years in Southern Africa

…, GRJ Cooper, K Lundblad, TC Partridge, L Scott… - Quaternary Science …, 2003 - Elsevier
Data from stalagmites in the Makapansgat Valley, South Africa, document regional climatic
change in southern Africa in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. A new TIMS U-series dated …

Biome reconstruction from pollen and plant macrofossil data for Africa and the Arabian peninsula at 0 and 6000 years

…, G Riollet, JC Ritchie, E Roche, L Scott… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Biome reconstruction from pollen and plant macrofossil data provides an objective method
to reconstruct past vegetation. Biomes for Africa and the Arabian peninsula have been …

Multi-factor Cox-Ingersoll-Ross models of the term structure: Estimates and tests from a Kalman filter model

RR Chen, L Scott - The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2003 - Springer
This paper presents a method for estimating multi-factor versions of the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (1985b)
model of the term structure of interest rates. The fixed parameters in one, two, and …

Pricing interest rate options in a two-factor Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model of the term structure

RR Chen, L Scott - The review of financial studies, 1992 - academic.oup.com
Solutions are presented for prices on interest rate options in a two-factor version of the Cox–Ingersoll–Ross
model of the term structure. Specific solutions are developed for caps on …

A Late Quaternary pollen record from the Transvaal bushveld, South Africa

L Scott - Quaternary research, 1982 - cambridge.org
Pollen spectra from cores of organic spring deposits from the Transvaal provide evidence for
the climatic evolution of the province during the last 35,000 yr BP or more. The past climatic …

Correlation of missed doses of enoxaparin with increased incidence of deep vein thrombosis in trauma and general surgery patients

SG Louis, M Sato, T Geraci, R Anderson, SD Cho… - JAMA …, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Enoxaparin sodium is widely used for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis,
yet DVT rates remain high in the trauma and general surgery populations. Missed doses …

Pollen analysis of hyena coprolites and sediments from Equus Cave, Taung, southern Kalahari (South Africa)

L Scott - Quaternary research, 1987 - cambridge.org
Equus Cave, in Quaternary tufa near Taung in the semiarid woodland of the southern
Kalahari, yielded 2.5 m of sediment in which a rich assemblage of bones and coprolites was …