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The pricing of the most elementary of securities has been well understood since the nineteenth century. Financial practitioners had used the simple bond pricing formula to determine the price of a bond with a specified coupon payment rate and the redemption (or face) value.

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Read, C. (2012). The Times. In: The Rise of the Quants. Great Minds in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137026149_14

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