SFS Cavalcade North America 2026
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
May 18-21, 2026
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Track T7-5: Banking and Credit Intermediation
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Pricing Power in the Mortgage Market: Evidence from GSE Fee Waivers 1Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; 2Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania In 2022, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac waived a portion of their guarantee fees for mortgages to lower-income first-time homebuyers in order to reduce barriers to homeownership. We estimate that private intermediary mortgage lenders, on average, capture nearly half the value of the fee waiver rather than fully passing these waivers through to homebuyers. Moreover, despite Federal regulation prohibiting loan officers from benefiting financially from interest rate markups, we document significant variation across loan officers in pass-through of the waivers, consistent with loan officers continuing to have incentives and market power to charge higher prices. In particular, we find that loan officers with a track record of originating expensive mortgages pass through only a fraction of GSE fee waivers to borrowers.
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