The Time-Varying Price of Financial Intermediation in the Mortgage Market

Andreas Fuster, Stephanie Lo and Paul Willen
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No 23-103, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series from Swiss Finance Institute

Abstract: We introduce a new measure of the price charged by financial intermediaries for connecting mortgage borrowers with capital market investors. Based on administrative lender pricing data, we document that the price of intermediation is strongly driven by variation in demand, reflecting capacity constraints of mortgage originators. This positive co-movement of price with quantity reduced the pass-through of quantitative easing. We also find a notable upward trend in this price over 2008- 2014, likely due to an increased legal and regulatory burden in the mortgage market. The trend led to an implicit cost to borrowers of nearly $100 billion over this period.

Keywords: mortgage finance; financial intermediation; monetary policy transmission; QE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 E52 G21 L11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 96 pages
Date: 2023-11
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Journal Article: The Time‐Varying Price of Financial Intermediation in the Mortgage Market (2024)
Working Paper: The time-varying price of financial intermediation in the mortgage market (2017)
Working Paper: The time-varying price of financial intermediation in the mortgage market (2017)
Working Paper: The Time-Varying Price of Financial Intermediation in the Mortgage Market (2017)
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