Description
The infrastructure finance course focuses on the application of financial theory and risk analysis to the financing of infrastructure projects. It discusses various sources of financing for infrastructure development and evaluates cost and risk, both from an investor and a project perspective. A number of issues such as public and private financing, limited and full recourse financing, valuation of projects, and refinancing are discussed. This course takes a global perspective, with analysis of international infrastructure projects and discussion of sovereign and exchange rate risk. It also discusses the concept of infrastructure as an asset class, and infrastructure asset based securitization.