Presentation by Robert Sunshine, Senior Advisor in CBO’s Office of the Director, at the 11th Annual Meeting of the OECD Network of Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Financial Institutions.
In conducting analyses and in preparing cost estimates and studies, CBO consults with numerous outside experts—mostly informally. Those experts include professors, analysts at think tanks, representatives of industry groups, other private-sector experts, and people working for federal agencies and for state and local governments. They are selected to represent a variety of areas of expertise and perspectives.
In 2018, CBO received written feedback during the preparation of 22 reports or working papers, with an average of three reviewers per document. During that year, CBO convened five formal meetings with its official panels of experts:
Panel of Economic Advisers
Panel of Health Advisers
Technical Review Panel for CBO’s Health Insurance Simulation Model (HISIM)