Table of Contents

Federal Revenue Forecasting. The State of the Art: Revenue Forecasting in U.S. State Government. 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. Budget Forecasting for the State of California. Forecasting the Personal Income Tax. Income Tax Forecasting in Minnesota. Methods and Issues in Forecasting Casino Tax Revenue. Estimating and Forecasting Welfare Caseloads. Forecast Evaluation: A Case Study. Using Census Data to Forecast New Local Sales Taxes. Does Revenue Forecasting Responsibility Matter: The Case of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Evaluating Revenue Forecasting in City Governments: A Survey of Texas Finance Directors. Pro Forma Forecasting for Determining Financial Position of Enterprise Operations in Government. Preparing Data for Forecasting. Consensus Forecasting for Budgeting in Theory and Practice. Use of Consensus Revenue Forecasting in the U.S. State Governments. State Revenue Forecasting in the State of Indiana: A Consensus System in a Politically Divided State. Consensus Revenue Estimating in State Government: A Case of What Works in Kansas. Forecast Errors: Balancing the Risks and Costs of Being Wrong. State Fiscal Management: What Practitioners Can Learn from Risk Management Theory. State Tax Portfolios: An Integrated Methodology for Forecasting and Analysis. Forecasting Revenues and Expenditures in the Public Sector: Guidance from a Code of Ethics. Transparency in Government Revenue Forecasting. Incorporating Fiscal Architecture into Budget Forecasting. Forecasting Practices in Emerging Countries: The Morocco Experience.

About the Author

Jinping Sun (California State University, Bakersfield, USA) (Edited by) ,  Thomas D. Lynch (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA) (Edited by)