The program takes a holistic view of housing finance and includes technical, managerial, and policy issues in international housing finance. Some of the specific topics that will be covered are:

• Indicators of an effective housing finance system.
• Criteria for transplantation of mortgage financial models from one country to another.
• Profitability analysis for financial firms involved with housing finance
• Assessing and managing credit, liquidity, and interest rate risk.
• Valuing techniques for mortgage market instruments.
• Pros and cons of alternative funding for housing finance.
• Infrastructure requirements for secondary market development; multiple ways of accessing capital markets.
• Different regulatory approaches for the housing finance industry and the implications of Basel II.
• How to move mortgage lending down-market; how to expand access to micro-finance for housing.
• Rationale for subsidizing housing; subsidizing housing finance the right way.