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Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Editors | p. xv |
Contributors | p. xvii |
Government Budget Forecasting: Improving the State of the Art | p. 1 |
Forecast Practices | |
Federal Revenue Forecasting | p. 11 |
The State of the Art: Revenue Forecasting in U.S. State Governments | p. 27 |
Forecasting State Revenues in Louisiana: From Dramatic Changes in the Oil and Gas Industry in the 1970s and 1980s to the Aftermath of Catastrophic Hurricanes in the 2000s | p. 43 |
Budget Forecasting for the State of California | p. 61 |
Forecasting the Personal Income Tax | p. 105 |
Income Tax Forecasting in Minnesota | p. 135 |
Methods and Issues in Forecasting Casino Tax Revenue | p. 161 |
Estimating and Forecasting Welfare Caseloads | p. 187 |
Forecast Evaluation: A Case Study | p. 223 |
Using Census Data to Forecast New Local Sales Taxes | p. 241 |
Does Revenue Forecasting Responsibility Matter: The Case of Milwaukee, Wisconsin | p. 281 |
Evaluating Revenue Forecasting in City Governments: A Survey of Texas Finance Directors | p. 305 |
Pro Forma Forecasting for Determining the Financial Position of Enterprise Operations in Government | p. 325 |
Preparing Data for Forecasting | p. 345 |
Consensus Forecasting | |
Consensus Forecasting for Budgeting in Theory and Practice | p. 379 |
Use of Consensus Revenue Forecasting in U.S. State Governments | p. 393 |
State Revenue Forecasting in the State of Indiana: A Consensus System in a Politically Divided State | p. 415 |
Consensus Revenue Estimating in State Government: A Case of What Works in Kansas | p. 431 |
Uncertainty and Risk Assessment in Budget Forecasting | |
Forecast Errors: Balancing the Risks and Costs of Being Wrong | p. 459 |
State Fiscal Management: What Practitioners Can Learn from Risk Management Theory | p. 477 |
State Tax Portfolios: An Integrated Methodology for Forecasting and Analysis | p. 501 |
Other Topics in Budget Forecasting | |
Forecasting Revenues and Expenditures in the Public Sector: Guidance from a Code of Ethics | p. 527 |
Transparency in Government Revenue Forecasting | p. 551 |
Incorporating Fiscal Architecture into Budget Forecasting | p. 567 |
Forecasting Practices in Emerging Countries: The Morocco Experience | p. 595 |
Index | p. 613 |
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