For McQuown, Vasicek and Kealhofer, the road from theory to practice had some gaping potholes.

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"Equity prices contain everything known to markets, " says Vasicek, who holds a Ph.

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McQuown and Vasicek left Wells separately in the mid-1970s but teamed up in 1983 to apply options-pricing theory to live debt markets.

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Carolina D Justin Faulk was voted team MVP, and RW Patrick Dwyer won the Josef Vasicek Award for cooperation with local media in voting by the local Professional Hockey Writers Association chapter.

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In Slovakia, fans lit candles for their star player Pavol Demitra, while Czechs paid similar respects in the Old Town Square in Prague to honour their three compatriots killed in the crash: Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek.

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