{"id":5411,"date":"2013-05-01T15:27:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2013-05-08T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T11:39:44","slug":"should-the-role-of-preparing-budgetary-projections-be-delegated-to-an-independent-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/should-the-role-of-preparing-budgetary-projections-be-delegated-to-an-independent-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the role of preparing budgetary projections be delegated to an independent agency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merola, Rossana,\u00a0P\u00e9rez, Javier.<\/p>\n<p>Who should we trust when it comes to fiscal forecasts: governments or independent agencies? This column argues that this question is, in fact, a red herring: empirical evidence suggests that in the past, international agencies\u2019 fiscal forecasts were partially affected by the same problems that the literature widely acknowledges for governmental forecasts. An attractive solution is independent national forecasters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong>Voxeu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/article\/fiscal-forecasts-governments-vs-independent-agencies\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merola, Rossana,\u00a0P\u00e9rez, Javier. Who should we trust when it comes to fiscal forecasts: governments or independent agencies? This column argues that this question is, in fact, a red herring: empirical evidence suggests that in the past, international agencies\u2019 fiscal forecasts were partially affected by the same problems that the literature widely acknowledges for governmental forecasts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39,4],"tags":[28,25],"class_list":["post-5411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-39","category-proposals","tag-28","tag-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}