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geek tragedy

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Thu Feb 18, 2016, 03:14 PM Feb 2016

Dynamic scoring vs static scoring in fiscal policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_scoring

Dynamic scoring predicts the impact of fiscal policy changes by forecasting the effects of economic agents' reactions to incentives created by policy. It is an adaptation of static scoring, the traditional method for analyzing policy changes.

Due to the complexity of modeling economic agents' behavior, applying dynamic scoring to a policy can be difficult. Economists must infer from economic agents' current behavior how the agents would behave under the new policy. Difficulty increases as the proposed policy becomes increasingly unlike current policy. Likewise, the difficulty of dynamic scoring increases as the time horizon under consideration lengthens. This is due to any model's intrinsic inability to account for unforeseen external shocks in the future.

When feasible, the method yields a more accurate prediction of a policy's impact on a country's fiscal balance and economic output.[citation needed]. The potential for heightened accuracy arises from recognition that households and firms will alter their behavior to continue maximizing welfare (households) or profits (firms) under the new policy. Dynamic scoring is more accurate than static scoring when the econometric model correctly captures how households and firms will react to a policy changes.

Further, the reaction to policy changes may not occur quickly, and thus an intrinsic lag in market behavior obscures the real effect of policy changes.


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Using dynamic scoring has been promoted by Republican legislators to argue that supply-side tax policy, for example the Bush tax cuts of 2001[1] and 2011 GOP Path to Prosperity proposal,[2] return higher benefits in terms of GDP growth and revenue increases than are predicted from static scoring. Some economists[who?] argue that their dynamic scoring conclusions are overstated,[3] pointing out that CBO practices already include some dynamic scoring elements and that to include more may lead to politicization of the department.[4]

On January 6, 2013, the version of the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act of 2013 included in the Budget and Accounting Transparency Act of 2014 passed the United States House of Representatives as part of their Rules adopted in House Resolution 5 largely along party lines by a vote of 234-172.[5] The bill will require the Congressional Budget Office to use dynamic scoring to provide a macroeconomic impact analysis for bills that are estimated to have a large budgetary effect.[6] The text of the provision reads:
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Dynamic scoring vs static scoring in fiscal policy (Original Post) geek tragedy Feb 2016 OP
For folks who reject climate change models exboyfil Feb 2016 #1

exboyfil

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1. For folks who reject climate change models
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 03:35 PM
Feb 2016

showing good agreement for predicted values for over 80 years, they sure want to hang their hats on dubious models that anyone who looks at charts of GDP growth and top marginal tax rates show no or even a negative correlation.

Anytime someone points to dynamic scoring ask they about the climate change models.

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