对想研究中国房贷资产证券化的有一定的帮助.
 Abstract 
The residential mortgage market becomes a financial engine for the booming residential 
housing development and sustained economic growth in China. Our study provides the first 
rigorous empirical analysis on the earlier performance of residential mortgage market in China 
based on a unique micro dataset of mortgage loan history collected from a major residential 
mortgage lender in China. We found that while the option theory fails to explain prepayment and 
default behavior in the residential mortgage market in China, other non-option theory related 
financial economic factors play major roles in determining the prepayment and default risks in 
China. We also found that borrower’s characteristics are significant in determining prepayment 
behavior, hence may be used as an effective tool for screening potential high risk borrowers in the 
loan origination process. Adopting a risk-based pricing in residential mortgage lending in China 
can improve the efficiency of the market, and enhance the credit availability to the most needed 
households, i.e., the younger households, blue-collar workers, lower income households, and help 
them become homeowners.