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Basic Definitions. Kalder-Hicks Optimality. Tiebout Competition. Markets. Market Failure. Public Goods. Non-Rivalry & Non-Excludability. Externalities. Incomplete Market with Imperfect Information. Investment Decisions (IRR, NPV, BCR). Payback Period. Relationships between NPV, BCR, IRR, & Discount Rate). Time Value of Money. Compounding vs. Discounting. Future & Present Values. Annuities and Single Cash Flows. Relationships between Interest Rates and Future & Present Values. Equivalent Annual R...

20 Multiple Choice. Topics: Market Failure Benefit-Cost Analysis --> Present and Future Values, Annuities & Single Cash Flow. Net Profit Value, Benefit-Cost Ratio, Interest Return Rate, Payback Values Compounding Periodicity

Subcommittees. Committees. Chambers. Congress. President.

Phases of Federal Budget Cycle. Legislative Review. Execution & Service Delivery Phases. Audit & Evaluation.

Executive Preparation. Executive Budget. Top-Down Approach. Types of Budgets. Zero-Based Budgeting. Legislative Consideration. Appropriation Acts. Committees.

Market Failure. Information Economics. Market vs. Government Failure. Pareto Optimality. Kalder-Hicks Optimality. Institutional Failure. Tiebout Competition. Privatization of Public Goods. Agency Theory (Principal-Agent Issues). Adverse Selection. Moral Hazard. Transaction Costs Economics. Provision and Production.

Fiscal Administration. Public vs. Business Finance. Fiscal Sustainability. Golden Rule of Finance. Balancing Spending and Revenue. Dillon's Rule. Market Structure. Role of Regulation. Role of Intermediates. Voluntary Exchange. Market Efficiency. Laws of Price Formation. Market Failure. Incomplete Markets and Imperfect Information. Economic Stabilization. Redistribution. Privatization.