opposes top-down knowledge as an academic illusion. Together with EspenGaarderHaug, Taleb asserts that option pricing is determined in a "heuristic way"
probabilities to be negative in certain cases as first pointed out by EspenGaarderHaug in 2004. A rigorous mathematical definition of negative probabilities
borrowing cost and the long stock lending income.[citation needed] EspenGaarderHaug and Nassim Nicholas Taleb argue that the Black–Scholes model merely
intermediaries and investors Oldenbourg Verlag München ISBN 978-3-486-58632-9 EspenGaarderHaug & Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008): "Why We Have Never Used the Black–Scholes–Merton