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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 11.437 (Spring 2006) 
  • Course Title:
  • Financing Economic Development 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Urban Studies and Planning 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Karl Seidman 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 11.437 Financing Economic Development



    Spring 2006




    Course Highlights


    This course features a set of assignments and descriptions of the student projects, which focused on rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.


    Course Description


    This course focuses on financing tools and program models to support local economic development. It includes an overview of private capital markets and financing sources to understand capital market imperfections that constrain economic development; business accounting; financial statement analysis; federal economic development programs; and public finance tools. Program models covered include revolving loan funds, guarantee programs, venture capital funds, bank holding companies, community development loan funds and credit unions, micro enterprise funds, and the use of the Community Reinvestment Act to leverage bank financing.
     

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