The Pricing of Mortgage Insurance Premiums Under Systematic and Idiosyncratic Shocks

The Pricing of Mortgage Insurance Premiums Under Systematic and Idiosyncratic Shocks

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Article ID: iaor20162048
Volume: 83
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 447
End Page Number: 474
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Journal: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Authors: , ,
Keywords: investment, marketing, financial
Abstract:

The recent financial crisis has posed new challenges to the pricing issue of mortgage insurance premiums. By extending an option‐based approach to this pricing issue, we attempt to tackle several key challenges including the clustering of mortgage defaults, the diversification effect of underlying property pools, and mortgage insurers' information advantages. Our model partitions the volatility of collateralized property prices into idiosyncratic volatility and systematic volatility. Our results demonstrate that although the rising number of pooled mortgage loans can reduce the volatility of average default losses, the increasing correlation between the collateralized properties can lead to the volatility clustering of these losses.

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