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Home Equity Insurance

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Robert J. Shiller () (Cowles Foundation, Yale University)
Allan N. Weiss (Case Shiller Weiss, Inc.)

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Home equity insurance policies, policies insuring homeowners against declines in the price of their homes, would bear some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such policies is presented here, and conceptual issues are discussed. Choices include pass-through futures and options, in which the insurance company in effect serves as a retailer to homeowners of short positions in real estate futures markets or of put options on real estate. Another choice is a life-event-triggered insurance policy, in which the homeowner pays regular fixed insurance premia and is entitled to a claim if both there is a sufficient decline in the real estate price index and a specified life event (such as a move beyond a certain geographical distance) occurs. Pricing of the premia to cover loss experience is derived, and tables of break-even policy premia are shown, based on estimated models of Los Angeles housing prices 1971-91.

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Paper provided by Cowles Foundation, Yale University in its series Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers with number 1074.

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Date of creation: Jul 1994
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