Purpose: This paper contributes to shed light on the quality and performance of US fiscal forecasts. Design/methodology/approach: The first part inspects the causes of official fiscal forecasts revisions by Congressional Budget Office (CBO) between 1984 and 2016 that are due to technical,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of multiple measures of the economy while investigating the role of the economy with crime, as well as the sensitivity of those results. Design/methodology/approach Provincial-level data, 1981-2009, and a series of statistical...