Prepayment and the valuation of Canadian mortgage-backed securities : a proportional hazards approach

This paper estimates both parametric and non-parametric proportional hazards models for a subset of Canadian mortgage-backed security data. The estimated parametric hazard function is then used to drive exogenous prepayments within an arbitrage-free model of the term structure of interest rates....

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Main Author: Quick, Roger D.
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6359