Assessing Property Risk in Australian Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

What is Subordination About? Credit Risk and Subordination Levels in Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities (CMBS)

Subordination is designed to provide credit risk protection for senior CMBS tranches by allocating the initial credit losses to the more junior tranches. Subordination level should in theory reflect the underlying credit risk of the CMBS pool. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that subordination is purely about credit risk as intended. We find a very weak relation between subordination leve...

Credit Risk and Subordination Levels in Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities (CMBS)

Measuring Value-at-Risk for Mortgage Backed Securities

This paper investigates the computation of Value-at-Risk (VaR) measures for mortgage backed securities (MBSs) using data for the Danish MBS market. The current RiskMetrics proposal from J.P. Morgan is used as a reference point throughout, but the study diverge somewhat from their proposal, especially with respect to the estimation of zero coupon yield curves as well as in the choice of mapping ...

Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) and Market Efficiency with respect to Costly Information

Commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) are complex asset backed securities trading in markets that do not currently use derivatives pricing technology. This lack of usage is due to the complexity of the modeling exercise, and only the recent and costly availability of historical data. As such, CMBS markets provide a natural environment for the testing of market efficiency with respect to ...

Valuation of Mortgage - Backed Securities in a Distributed Environment

Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities in a Distributed Environment Vladimir Surkov Master of Science Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2004 Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities, regarded as integration in high dimensional space, can be readily performed using Monte Carlo method. The Quasi-Monte Carlo method, by utilizing low discrepancy sequences, has been able ...