The Palgrave Handbook of Government Budget Forecasting [Hardcover]

This Handbook is a comprehensive anthology of up-to-date chapters contributed by current researchers in budget forecasting. Editors Daniel Williams and Thad Calabrese had previously found substantial deficiencies in public budgeting forecast literature with current research failing to address such matters as practices related to forecasting expenditure factors, the consequences of forecast bias, or empirical examination of the effectiveness of many deterministic methods actually used by many governments. This volume comprehensively addresses the state of knowledge about budget forecasting for practitioners, academics, and students and serves as a comprehensive resource for instruction alongside serving as a reference book for those engaged in budget forecasting practice.

1. Introduction- Daniel W. Williams and Thad Calabrese.- Part I: International and National.- 2. Macroeconomic Theory & Forecasting- Gerald D. Cohen.- 3. Evaluation of Budget Forecasts- Neil R. Ericcson and Andrew B. Martinez.- 4. Budget Preparation and Forecasting in the Federal Republic of Germany- D?rte Busch and Wolfgang Strehl.- 5. Revenue Forecasting in Low-Income and Developing Countries: Biases and Potential Remedies- Marco Cangiano and Rahul Pathak.- 6. The Reliability of Long-Run Budget Projections- Rudolph Penner.- 7. CBO Updated Forecasts: Do a Few Months Matter?- James W. Douglas and Ringa Raudla.- Part II: State and Local.- 8. State Revenue Forecasting Practices: Accuracy, Transparency, and Political Participation- Emily Franklin, Carolyn Bourdeaux, and Alex Hathaway.- 9. Modeling and Forecasting State Tax Revenue since the Great Recession- Melissa McShea and Joseph Cordes.- 10. Bias Associated with Centrally Budgeted Expenditure Forecasts- Thad Calabrese and Daniel W. Williams.- 11. Excessive Revenue Underforecasting: EvlÃ/