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Type: Journal Articles Authors: Stuart Adam and Antoine Bozio
Published in: OECD Journal on Budgeting
Volume, issue, pages: Vol. 9, No. 2, 2009, pp.99-124.
Dynamic scoring - taking full account of all the economic effects of policies when estimating their budgetary effects - is almost self-evidently attractive. But it is formidably difficult to achieve. This paper assesses the key conceptual and practical challenges it poses and considers the pros and cons of adopting it. The objective should be to provide more useful information while being robust to the political debate. Search |

