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The Pricing of Mortgage Insurance Premiums Under Systematic and Idiosyncratic Shocks
Author(s) -
Pu Ming,
Fan GangZhi,
Ban Chunsheng
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of risk and insurance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1539-6975
pISSN - 0022-4367
DOI - 10.1111/jori.12052
Subject(s) - collateralized debt obligation , diversification (marketing strategy) , volatility (finance) , economics , volatility clustering , financial economics , default , financial crisis , econometrics , business , finance , collateral , marketing , autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity , macroeconomics
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.