Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities: Prepayment and Default
Posted: 14 Aug 2002
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Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities: Prepayment and Default
Abstract
One of the major developments in real estate finance during the 1990s was the emergence of a viable market for commercial mortgage backed securities. The growth in this market has spurred greater interest in empirical and theoretical research on commercial mortgage default and prepayment. We employ a competing risks model to examine the default and prepayment behavior of commercial loans underlying CMBS deals. We find that changes in the yield curve have a direct impact on the probability of mortgage termination. Furthermore, we do not find any statistical relationship between LTV and prepayment or default.
Keywords: commercial mortgage-backed securities, competing risks, prepayment, default
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