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Accession Number
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PB2013-103685
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Title
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CBO's Economic Forecasting Record: 2013 Update.
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Publication Date
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Jan 2013
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Media Count
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49p
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Personal Author
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N/A
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Abstract
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For more than three decades, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has prepared economic forecasts that underlie the agencys projections for the federal budget and cost estimates for proposed federal legislation. In particular, forecasts of output, income, inflation, and interest rates play a significant role in the agencys budgetary analysis; for example, projections of wages and salaries are used to forecast individual income tax receipts. CBO regularly evaluates the quality of its economic forecasts by comparing them with the economys actual performance and with forecasts by the Administration and the Blue Chip consensusan average of about 50 private-sector forecasts. Such comparisons indicate the extent to which uncertainty and imperfect information may have caused CBO to miss patterns or turning points in the economy. They also identify areas where CBO has tended to make larger errors or less accurate forecasts than other analysts.
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Keywords
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Business changes
Business cycles
Data choices
Data sources
Economic forecasts
Evaluation
Federal budgets
Forecasting record
Limitations
Productivity growth
Quality measurements
Trend rates
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Source Agency
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Congressional Budget Office
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NTIS Subject Category
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96A - Domestic Commerce, Marketing, & Economics
70F - Public Administration & Government
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Corporate Author
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Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC.
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Document Type
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Technical report
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Title Note
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N/A
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NTIS Issue Number
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1309
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Contract Number
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