Constructing a Positive Shock: Growth Through the Lens of Option Pricing

July 28, 2023

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Mehmet Cangul. Constructing a Positive Shock: Growth Through the Lens of Option Pricing, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2023) accessed December 30, 2024

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Summary

Low-income economies face negative shocks whose frequency and disproportionate impact overcome growth trajectories, producing a negative drift. COVID-19 was the latest such episode. To escape this negative drift, and build a durable recovery, there is a need for a counter-balancing force: to construct a positive shock. Growth is realized through decisions that fall under two categories, routine and non-linear. While routine decisions modify existing economic behavior along the same path, non-linear decisions describe riskier options that involve transformation. Option pricing theory can be useful to describe the latter, and construct the positive shock required to escape the negative drift.

Subject: Asset prices, COVID-19, Health, National accounts, Prices, Return on investment

Keywords: Asset prices, COVID-19, Escape speed, Growth model, Option pricing growth model, Option pricing theory, Positive shock, Return on investment, Riskier option, Routine decision

Publication Details

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27
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Working Paper No. 2023/152
Stock No:

WPIEA2023152
ISBN:

9798400246340
ISSN:

1018-5941

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