Commercial Mortgage Terminations: Evidence from CMBS

22 Pages Posted: 11 Mar 2005

See all articles by Yongheng Deng

Yongheng Deng

Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

John M. Quigley

University of California, Berkeley, College of Letters & Science, Department of Economics (Deceased); University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Real Estate Group (Deceased)

Anthony B. Sanders

George Mason University - School of Business

Date Written: December 2004

Abstract

Option theory predicts that mortgage default or prepayment will be exercised if the call or put option is "in the money." We extend our analysis to commercial mortgages using data from commercial mortgage-backed securities. The paper presents a model of the competing risks of mortgage termination (default and prepayment) using data from commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) deals.

Our results show that the option model explains both default and prepayment for commercial mortgages. We find that loan specific variables (such as loan-to-value ratio, debt service coverage ratio, loan-rate spread and prepayment prevention) are important explanatory variables for both default and prepayment. We also find that default and prepayment vary rather dramatically across regions of the country; given that regional economies do not move in perfect lock-step, we would expect there to be cross-sectional variation in default rates. However, the degree of variation across regions in terms of prepayments is not as predictable.

JEL Classification: R33, G21

Suggested Citation

Deng, Yongheng and Quigley, John M. and Sanders, Anthony Bown, Commercial Mortgage Terminations: Evidence from CMBS (December 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=683723 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.683723

Yongheng Deng

Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison ( email )

4110 Grainger Hall
975 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
United States
+1 (608) 262-4865 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://bus.wisc.edu/faculty/yongheng-deng

John M. Quigley

University of California, Berkeley, College of Letters & Science, Department of Economics (Deceased) ( email )

Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
United States
510-643-7411 (Phone)
510-643-7357 (Fax)

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Real Estate Group (Deceased) ( email )

Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
United States

Anthony Bown Sanders (Contact Author)

George Mason University - School of Business ( email )

Fairfax, VA 22030
United States

Do you have a job opening that you would like to promote on SSRN?

Paper statistics

Downloads
533
Abstract Views
4,979
Rank
108,764
PlumX Metrics