Comparing Mortgage Credit Risk Policies : An Options-Based Approach
Buckley, Karaguishiyeva,Van Order, and Vecvagare analyze the structure of approaches to mortgage credit risk that are now being used in a number of OECD and transition economies. The authors' basic approach is to show how option pricing models...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/05/2360828/comparing-mortgage-credit-risk-policies-options-based-approach http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18180 |
| Summary: | Buckley, Karaguishiyeva,Van Order, and
Vecvagare analyze the structure of approaches to mortgage
credit risk that are now being used in a number of OECD and
transition economies. The authors' basic approach is to
show how option pricing models can help measure and evaluate
the risks of various schemes. They find that mortgage
default insurance can be a cost-effective tool for both
improving housing affordability and efficiently addressing
some of the rationing that characterizes this market. When
correctly structured, as it is in a number of transition and
market countries, this kind of program can be expected to
reduce nonprice rationing at an actuarially fair price. At
the same time, considerable care must be exercised in the
development of such instruments. Geographical risk
diversification, particularly across borders, can play a
major role in the success of these programs. Such
diversification could be important not only in smaller
transition economies but in EU countries as well. |
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