Course Details
Public Structural Investments
Academic Year 2025/26
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
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
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.