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.