Lookback Options Have Payoffs That

question 97

Multiple Choice

Lookback options have payoffs that

• A) depend in part on the minimum or maximum price of the underlying asset during the life of the option.
• B) only depend on the minimum price of the underlying asset during the life of the option.
• C) only depend on the maximum price of the underlying asset during the life of the option.
• D) are known in advance.

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Definitions:

Inefficient

refers to the suboptimal allocation or use of resources in a way that does not maximize potential output or outcomes.

Voting Paradox

is a situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (A is preferred to B, B is preferred to C, and C is preferred to A), despite the individual preferences being consistent.

Majority-Rule Voting

A decision-making process where the option that receives more than half of the votes is chosen, commonly used in democratic systems and organizations.

Voting Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., not transitive), even if the preferences of individual voters are not, leading to a lack of consistent aggregation of individual preferences into a coherent group order.