CBO learns from many outside experts. Part of that learning comes through our panels of advisers, a Panel of Economic Advisers and a Panel of Health Advisers, which consist of widely recognized specialists on a range of issues. Those groups—whose membership includes previous CBO directors, other distinguished economists, and acknowledged experts in health care—meet to discuss important analytical issues in their areas of expertise and to advise the agency on its analyses. In addition, from time to time during the year, CBO calls on members of those panels for advice in how to address analytical questions that arise in the preparation of studies and cost estimates. The Panel of Economic Advisers also reviews the agency’s economic forecasts. Although such experts provide considerable assistance, CBO is solely responsible for the accuracy of its work.
Current members of CBO’s Panel of Economic Advisers are:
Raj Chetty, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics and Director of the Lab for Economic Applications and Policy
Harvard University
Menzie D. Chinn, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Affairs and Economics
Robert M. LaFollette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin
Dan L. Crippen, Ph.D.
Executive Director
National Governors Association
Steven J. Davis, Ph.D.
William H. Abbott Professor of International Business and Economics
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
Robert E. Hall, Ph.D.
Robert and Carole McNeil Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics
Stanford University
Jan Hatzius, Ph.D.
Chief U.S. Economist
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Ph.D.
President
American Action Forum
Simon Johnson, Ph.D.
Robert A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Charles I. Jones, Ph.D
STANCO 25 Professor of Economics
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Anil Kashyap, Ph.D.
Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
Lawrence Katz, Ph.D.
Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Donald Kohn, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program
Brookings Institution
June O'Neill, Ph.D.
Wollman Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of Business and Government
Baruch College
Rudolph G. Penner, Ph.D.
Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Public Policy and Institute Fellow
The Urban Institute
Adam S. Posen, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
External Member, Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England
James Poterba, Ph.D.
Mitsui Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research
Joel Prakken, Ph.D.
Chairman
Macroeconomic Advisers
Carmen M. Reinhart, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Alice Rivlin, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Brookings Institution
Robert Shimer, Ph.D.
Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics and the College
University of Chicago
Matthew Slaughter, Ph.D.
Signal Companies' Professor of Management
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Stephen P. Zeldes, Ph.D.
Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Finance and Economics
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University