Search
- Report
CBO periodically issues a compendium of options—this installment presents 79—to inform lawmakers about the budgetary effects of ways to reduce the deficit. The report has both interactive and printable formats.
- Report
The federal government influences innovation through two broad channels: spending and tax policies, and the legal and regulatory systems. Policymakers have a number of options for spurring additional innovation.
- Report
In this report, CBO provides background on the methods used to estimate the costs of antifraud legislation.
- Report
In June, CBO’s director testified before the House Financial Services Committee about CBO’s estimates of the cost of the credit programs of the Export-Import Bank. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions for the record.
- Report
Loan guarantees made in the FHA's single-family mortgage program between 1992 and 2013 are now projected to generate small costs over their lifetimes rather than the significant savings that were originally recorded in the federal budget.
- Presentation
Presentation by Francesca Castelli, formerly of CBO; Gabriel Ehrlich, Damien Moore, and Jeffrey Perry, all of CBO, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Blog Post
Last week Director Doug Elmendorf spoke at Macroeconomic Advisers’ Washington Policy Seminar and at Cornell University.
- Working Paper
This paper presents the simulation model that CBO uses to project the budgetary costs of the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA’s) single-family mortgage insurance program.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on May 15, 2014
- Cost Estimate
As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on July 24, 2014