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

mhoek@wharton.upenn.edu

 

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)

housingfinance@wharton.upenn.edu

2009 International Housing Finance Program: "Housing Finance in a Changing Global Environment"

 

> June 1 - June 11, 2009

> Registration Deadline: Extended

> Early Registration: MARCH 27, 2009

 

> Venue: The Wharton School, Room 260-Jon Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

 

To find out more, click here.

2009 International Housing Finance Program: "Optional Workshop on Securitization"

 

> June 12 - June 13, 2009

> Registration Deadline: Extended

> Early Registration: MARCH 27, 2009

 

> Venue: The Wharton School, Room 260-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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Housing Finance Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa

 

> November 03 - November 08, 2008

> Johannesburg, South Africa

 

> For participants from Sub-Saharan Africa

 

Held at the Wits Business School at the University of Witwatersrand

 

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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).