Pricing Upward-Only Adjusting Leases / Brent W. Ambrose, Patric H. Hendershott, Malgorzata M. Klosek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ambrose, Brent W. (Brent William), 1964-

Contributor:

Hendershott, Patric H.

Klosek, Malgorzata M.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w7622.

NBER working paper series no. w7622

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2000.

Summary:

This paper presents a stochastic pricing model of a unique, path-dependent lease instrument common in the United Kingdom and numerous commonwealth countries, the upward-only adjusting lease. In this lease, the rental rate is fixed at lease commencement but will be reset to the market rate at predetermined intervals (usually every five years) if it exceeds the contract rent. Numerical results indicate how the initial coupon rate should be set relative to that on a symmetric up-and-downward adjusting variable rate' lease under various economic conditions (level of real interest rates and expected drift and volatility of the underlying rental service flow). We also consider the calculation of effective rents when free rent periods are given during either a market collapse or a steady-state drift.

Notes:

March 2000.

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