This Handbook is a comprehensive anthology of up-to-date chapters contributed by current researchers in budget forecasting. Editors Daniel Williams and Thad Calabrese had previously found substantial deficiencies in public budgeting forecast literature with current research failing to address...

1. Introduction- Daniel W. Williams and Thad Calabrese -- Part I: International and National -- 2. Macroeconomic Theory & Forecasting- Gerald D. Cohen -- 3. Evaluation of Budget Forecasts- Neil R. Ericcson and Andrew B. Martinez -- 4. Budget Preparation and Forecasting in the Federal Republic of...