Home Equity Conversion Mortgages

Home Equity Conversion Mortgages
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Housing
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Total Pages: 246
Release: 1989
Genre: Home equity conversion
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Is the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage in the United States Sustainable? Evidence from Pricing Mortgage Insurance Premiums and Non-Recourse Provisions Using the Conditional Esscher Transform

Is the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage in the United States Sustainable? Evidence from Pricing Mortgage Insurance Premiums and Non-Recourse Provisions Using the Conditional Esscher Transform
Author: Hua Chen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2014
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The purpose of this paper is to build a modeling and pricing framework to investigate the sustainability of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program in the United States under realistic economic scenarios, i.e., whether the premium payments cover the fair premiums for the inherent risks in the HECM program. We note that earlier HECM models use static mortality tables, neglecting the dynamics of mortality rates and extreme mortality jumps. The earlier models also assume housing prices follow a geometric Brownian motion, which contradicts the fact that housing prices exhibit strong autocorrelation and varying volatility over time. To solve these problems, we propose a generalized Lee-Carter model with asymmetric jump effects to fit the mortality data, and model the house price index via an ARIMA-GARCH process. We then employ the conditional Esscher transform to price the non-recourse provision of reverse mortgages and compare it with the calculated mortgage insurance premiums. The HECM program turns out to be sustainable based on our model setup and parameter settings.

Reverse Mortgages

Reverse Mortgages
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
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Long-term Sustainability for Reverse Mortgages

Long-term Sustainability for Reverse Mortgages
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2013
Genre: Home equity conversion
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