Course Details
Public Structural Investments
Academic Year 2023/24
NVA070 course is part of 2 study plans
NPC-ARS / ARA Winter Semester 2nd year
NPC-ARS / ARP Winter Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Knowledge
Syllabus
2. Economic terms used in public projects (benefit, incomes, revenues, costs, expenditures, efficiency)
3. Basic methods of economic evaluation of public projects
4.–5. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
6. Time value of money, indexes of economic efficiency (NPV, IRR, FRR, ERR, B/C, …)
7. Risks and uncertainties (inflation expecting, states of the world)
8. Analysis of the sensitivity and probability
9. Financial resources for the public financing (domestic – public budgets, foreign – funding foreign resources, institutions)
10. Public orders submission – Act No. 137/2006 Coll., on Public Contracts
11.–12. Public business competition
13. Public orders evaluation. Choice of the best order (supply price, economic suitability)
Prerequisites
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Public and private sector (Pareto’s optimum, view of the efficiency)
2. Economic terms used in public projects (benefit, incomes, revenues, costs, expenditures, efficiency)
3. Basic methods of economic evaluation of public projects
4.–5. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
6. Time value of money, indexes of economic efficiency (NPV, IRR, FRR, ERR, B/C, …)
7. Risks and uncertainties (inflation expecting, states of the world)
8. Analysis of the sensitivity and probability
9. Financial resources for the public financing (domestic – public budgets, foreign – funding foreign resources, institutions)
10. Public orders submission – Act on Public Contracts
11.–12. Public business competition 13. Public orders evaluation. Choice of the best order (supply price, economic suitability)
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Assessment of the cost-effectiveness of projects.
2. SWOT analysis - Case Study.
3. Analysis of problems and solutions.
4. Logical Framework - Case study. Determination of connection hypotheses. Entering the project.
5. Individual project work - Logical Framework.
6. Presentation of results.
7. Cost methods of project evaluation - Case Study.
8. CBA analysis. Cost-effectiveness of the project. Individual work.
9. CBA analysis. The economic efficiency of the project. Individual work.
10. – 11. CBA analysis. The sensitivity analysis. Individual work.
12. Presentation of results.
13. Credit.