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Improving fiscal policy in the EU: the case for independent forecasts - Lars Jonung and Martin Larch
Author(s): Lars Jonung and Martin Larch (Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs)
Improving fiscal policy in the EU: the case for independent forecasts - Lars Jonung and Martin Larch 
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The evidence from several euro-area countries demonstrates the existence of a forecast bias in the budgetary process, which negatively affects fiscal performance. To remedy this bias, we suggest that forecasting should be assigned to an authority independent from the ministry of finance and the government, with the task of producing unbiased projections of growth and other variables crucial for the budgetary process.
(European Economy. Economic Papers 210. August 2004.
Brussels. 26pp. Tab. Free.)
| KC-AI-04-210-EN-C (online) | |
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| ISSN 1725-3187 (online)
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