We derive an approximate pricing formula for use in reverse mortgage valuation that allows the house price and interest rate to be stochastic with a deterministic distribution of termination time. We compare the results from the approximate pricing formula to a simulation and find that the...

This paper discusses some of the key characteristics of the U.S. subprime mortgage boom and bust and discusses the causes, particularly related to the relationship between subprime mortgage defaults and housing prices. We observe that housing prices and mortgage defaults had distinctly localized...

We evaluate the effects of CDO issuance on the pricing of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities. Upon controlling for mortgage option values and other well-established determinants of credit spreads, GMM results indicate that the emergence and rapid capitalization of the...