Analyzing an elder's desire for a reverse mortgage using an economic model that considers house bequest motivation, random death time and stochastic house price

SL Chiang, MS Tsai - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the aging of the population and the lengthening of life expectancy have
caused seniors to need more retirement income over a longer time period. Because the …

The Valuation at Origination of Mortgages with Full Prepayment and Default Risks

C Zhou, G Wang, Y Dong, P Wang - Methodology and Computing in …, 2024 - Springer
We investigate the valuation problem of a mortgage contract with full prepayment and
default risks using the reduced-form model with regime switching. The hazard rates of full …

Valuation of Mortgages by Using Lévy Models

SL Chiang, MS Tsai - Journal of Real Estate Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In a mortgage valuation model, the early termination (ie, prepayment and default) hazard
rates and the recovery rate can be specified as multivariate affine functions that include the …

Pricing Defaultable Bonds Using a Lévy Jump‐Diffusion Model

SL Chiang, MS Tsai - International Review of Finance, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper uses a reduced‐form approach to derive a closed‐form pricing formula for
defaultable bonds. The authors specify the default hazard rate as an affine function of …

Assessing mortgage servicing rights using a reduced-form model: Considering the effects of interest rate risks, prepayment and default risks, and random state …

SL Chiang, TT Yang, MS Tsai - Journal of Housing Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
Assessing an MSR's value is difficult in practice because it involves various revenues and
costs that are influenced by both the stochastic property of interest rates and the likelihood of …

A General Pricing Model for a Mortgage Insurance Contract Considering the Effects of Multivariate Random Variables on Termination Probabilities and Loss Rate

MS Tsai, SL Chiang - Housing Policy Debate, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This article describes the derivation of a general closed-form formula for determining a fair
premium for both Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and private mortgage insurance …

The Influences of Foreclosure Factors on the Value, Yield, Duration and Convexity of a Mortgage

SL Chiang, MS Tsai, S Jiang - Real Estate Economics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a theoretical model that considers the influence of foreclosure factors,
including foreclosure lag, foreclosure costs and the ratio of the auction price to the unpaid …

[PDF][PDF] The Influences of Foreclosure Factors on the Value, Yield, Duration and Convexity of a Risky Mortgage

SL Chiang, S Jiang - efmaefm.org
This paper presents a theoretical model that considers the influence of the foreclosure
factors (including the foreclosure lag, the foreclosure costs and the ratio of the auction price …

The Valuation Model for a Risky Asset When Its Risky Factors Follow Gamma Distributions

MS Tsai, SL Chiang - International Review of Finance, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper constructed a pricing model for the asset with multi‐risks by specifying the risky
factors (ie, interest rate and termination hazard rates) to follow gamma distributions. The …

[PDF][PDF] The Closed-form Pricing Formula for a Risky Asset When Its Risky Factors Follow Gamma Distributions

SL Chiang, MS Tsai - efmaefm.org
This paper constructed a pricing model for the asset with multi-risks by specifying the risky
factors (ie, interest rate and termination hazard rates) to follow gamma distributions. The …