“…In such a case, there is no single option price but two option bounds, which provide, under certain assumptions, upper and lower limits on option prices consistent with the observed stock price and riskless rate of interest. These bounds were originally introduced by Perrakis and Ryan (1984) and subsequently extended by Perrakis (1986Perrakis ( , 1988, Ritchken (1985), and Ritchken and Kuo (1988). To the extent that they are tighter than the M-BV bounds, they would, under the binomial assumption and a competitive structure of the market for financial intermediation, form the option bid and ask prices.…”