The International Housing Finance Program (IHFP) was established in 1985 to foster excellence in housing policy and housing finance education, research, and technical advisory services, with a specific focus on developing and emerging market economies.
- To the international housing finance industry and policy makers IHFP offers objective and state-of-the-art education in housing finance system development, instruments, risk assessment methods, and housing policy innovations.
- To academic institutions and professional trade associations in emerging economies it offers assistance to build up quality housing policy and housing finance training and research capabilities.
- To governments in the process of transforming their housing policies and housing finance institutions it offers advisory services and the dissemination of research and technical reports.
Drs. Marja Hoek-Smit
Director
International Housing Finance Program
Samuel Zell & Robert Lurie Real Estate Center
The Wharton School
1462 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6302, USA
+1 215.898.3313/9734 (Phone)
+1 215.573.2220 (Fax)
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Housing Finance Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa
> March 8th to 13th, 2010 > Johannesburg, South Africa
> For participants from Sub-Saharan Africa
Held at the Wits Business School at the University of Witwatersrand
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2010 International Housing Finance Program: "Housing Finance in a Changing Global Environment"
> June 7 - June 17, 2010 > Registration Deadline: May 7, 2010 > Early Registration: March 29, 2010
> Venue: The Wharton School, Jon Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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2010 International Housing Finance Program: "Optional Workshop on Securitization and Mortgage Bond"
With Newly Added Topic -- Mortgage Bond!
> June 18 - June 19, 2010 > Registration Deadline: May 7, 2010 > Early Registration: March 29, 2010
> Venue: The Wharton School, Jon Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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The Global Financial and Economic Crisis and the U.S Subprime Crisis
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Indonesia: Housing Finance Seminar 2008
> Links to the following presentations:
Hoek-Smit, Marja. "The Housing Finance Sector in Indonesia" (link). Hassler, Olivier; Hoek-Smit, Marja "Lessons from the U.S Mortgage Market Crisis". Lecture made for the Ministry of Economic Coordination, GOI, Jakarta, Indonesia (link). |
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