Budget Concepts and Process
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Dynamic Analysis at CBO
February 29, 2016Presentation by Wendy Edelberg, an Associate Director for Economic Analysis at CBO, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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How Initiatives to Reduce Fraud in Federal Health Care Programs Affect the Budget
October 20, 2014In this report, CBO provides background on the methods used to estimate the costs of antifraud legislation.
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The Highway Trust Fund and the Treatment of Surface Transportation Programs in the Federal Budget
June 11, 2014How can lawmakers address the imbalance between revenues and spending in the Highway Trust Fund? How does the unique budgetary classification of surface transportation programs limit the effectiveness of standard spending controls?
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Anatomy of a Cost Estimate for Legislation Funding Transportation Programs
June 11, 2014To show how transportation funding is handled in CBO’s cost estimates, this slide deck provides a guide to the agency’s 2012 estimate of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act.
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Fair-Value Estimates of the Cost of Selected Federal Credit Programs for 2015 to 2024
May 22, 2014The budgetary costs shown for selected credit programs would be higher under fair-value accounting—an alternative to the current approach for measuring costs—because it more fully accounts for the cost of the risk the government takes on.
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Choices for Deficit Reduction
November 8, 2012Are fiscal rules a useful tool for achieving budgetary goals? View the appendix of this report to learn more.
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Fair-Value Accounting for Federal Credit Programs
March 5, 2012CBO examines fair-value accounting as an alternative to the current approach for measuring the costs to the government of federal credit programs.