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Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale, and Peter R. Orszag, Sources of the Long-Term Fiscal Gap, tax notes, May 14, 2004, at 1049.

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Jón Blöndal, Issues in Accrual Budgeting, 4 oecd j. on budgeting 103 (2004).

Daniel Kahneman and Dan Lovallo, Timid Choices and Bold Forecasts: A Cognitive Perspective on Risk Taking, 39 management science (1993).

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk, 47 econmetrica 63 (1979).

Michael J. Boskin, Notes on the Tax Treatment of Human Capital (Nat'l Bureau of Econ. Research, Working Paper No. 116, 1975), available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w0116.

Michael J. Boskin, Federal Government Deficits: Some Myths and Realities, 72 am. econ. rev. 296 (1982).

Michael J. Boskin and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Public Debt and U.S. Saving: A New Test of the Neutrality Hypothesis, 23 Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series 55 (1985).

Michael J. Boskin, Causes and Consequences of Bias in the Consumer Price Index as a Measure of the Cost-of-Living, 33 atlantic econ. j. 1 (2005).

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Ellen Bradford and Matthew Scogin, PAYGO Rules and Sequestration Procedures (May 4, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/2-PAYGO.pdf).

David Burd and Takeshi Fujitama, FASAB & the Financial Statements of the United States: Comparing Budgetary Aggregates to Financial Statements, (May 3, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/13-FASAB.pdf).

David Burd and Brad Shron, Analysis & Critique of Specialized Rules: Discre-tionary Caps, Spending Targets, and Committee Allocations (May 4, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/1-SpecializedRules.pdf).

Leonard E. Burman and William G. Gale, A Preliminary Evaluation of the Tax Reform Panel's Report, tax notes, Dec. 5, 2005, at 1349.

Jackie Calmes, CBO See Wider Deficit this Year and in 2016 if Tax Cuts Don't End, wall st. j., Jan. 27, 2006, at A4.

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William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag, Economic Effects of Sustained Budget Deficits, 56 nat'l tax j. 463 (2003).

Elizabeth Garrett, Harnessing Politics: The Dynamics of Offset Requirements in the Tax Legislative Process, 65 u. chi. l. rev. 501 (1998).

J. Gokhale & K. Smetters, Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: An Update (Cato Inst. Paper No 0501, 2005).

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R. Glenn Hubbard, Jonathan Skinner, and Stephen P. Zeldes, Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance, 103 j. pol. econ. 360 (1995).

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Kenneth L. Judd, Debt and Distortionary Taxation in a Simple Perfect Foresight Model, 20 j. monetary econ. 51 (1987).

Daniel Kahneman and Dan Lovallo, Timid Choices and Bold Forecasts: A Cognitive Perspective on Risk Taking, 39 management science 17 (1993).

Hiroyuki Kohyama and Allison Quick, Accrual Accounting in Federal Budgeting: Retirement Benefits for Government Workers (May 1, 2006) (available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/hjackson/RetirementBenefits_25.pdf).

Tehila Kogut and Ilana Ritov, The “Identified Victim” Effect: An Identified Group, or Just a Single Individual?, 18 risk & uncertainty 157 (2005).

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David E. Lebow and Jeremy B. Rudd, Measurement Error in the Consumer Price Index: Where Do We Stand?, 41 j. econ. lit. 159 (2003).

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Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, The Humpty Dumpty Blues: Disaggregation Bias in the Evaluation of Tax Systems, 91 organizational behavior & human decision processes 230 (2003).

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, Framing and Taxation: Evaluation of Tax Policies Involving Household Composition, 25 J. econ. psychology 679 (2004).

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, Isolation Effects and the Neglect of Indirect Effects of Fiscal Policies, 19 J. behavioral decision making 289 (2006).

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, Thinking about Tax, 12 psychology, pub. pol'y, & law 106 (2006).

Franco Modigliani, Long Run Implications of Alternative Fiscal Policies and the Burden of the National Debt, 71 econ. j. 730 (1961).

Sita Nataraj and John B. Shoven, Has the Unified Budget Undermined the Government Trust Funds? (NBER Working Paper W10953, Dec. 2004).

Neill Perry and Puja Seams, Accrual Accounting for Federal Credit Programs: The Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (Apr. 20, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/6-AccrualAccounting.pdf).

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James Poterba and Lawrence H. Summers, Finite Lifetimes and the Effects of Budget Deficits on National Savings, 20 j. monetary econ. 369 (1987).

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Jared Shirck and Francis Shen, The Role of Estimation in Budget Procedures: Baselines (May 4, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/4-Baselines.pdf).

Deborah A. Small and George Loewenstein, Helping the Victim or Helping a Victim: Altruism and Identifiability, 26 risk & uncertainty 5 (2003).

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James Tobin, The Burden of the Public Debt: A Review Article, 20 j. fin. 679 (1965).

Stanley C.Wisniewski, Potential State Government Practices Impact of the New GASB Accounting Standard for Retiree Health Benefits, 25 public budgeting & fin. 104 (Mar. 2005).

Michael Woodford, Price Level Determinacy without Control of a Monetary Aggregate, 43 Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series 1 (1995).

Michael Woodford, Fiscal Requirements for Price Stability, 33 j. money, credit & banking 669 (2001).

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Thomas Laubach, new evidence on the interest rate effects of budget deficits and debt, board of governors of the fed. res. sys. (2003).

George Loewenstein, Deborah Small and James Strnad, Statistical, Identifiable and Iconic Victims and Perpetrators, in behavioral public finance (Edward J. McCaffery and Joel Slemrod eds., 2006).

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Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale, and Peter R. Orszag, Sources of the Long-Term Fiscal Gap, tax notes, May 14, 2004, at 1049.

Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Generational Accounting: A Meaningful Way to Evaluate Fiscal Policy, 8 j. econ. persp. 73 (1994).

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Cheryl D. Block, Congress and Accounting Scandals: Is the Pot Calling the Kettle Black? 82 neb. l. rev. 365 (2003).

Jón Blöndal, Issues in Accrual Budgeting, 4 oecd j. on budgeting 103 (2004).

Daniel Kahneman and Dan Lovallo, Timid Choices and Bold Forecasts: A Cognitive Perspective on Risk Taking, 39 management science (1993).

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk, 47 econmetrica 63 (1979).

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Michael J. Boskin and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Public Debt and U.S. Saving: A New Test of the Neutrality Hypothesis, 23 Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series 55 (1985).

Michael J. Boskin, Causes and Consequences of Bias in the Consumer Price Index as a Measure of the Cost-of-Living, 33 atlantic econ. j. 1 (2005).

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Ellen Bradford and Matthew Scogin, PAYGO Rules and Sequestration Procedures (May 4, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/2-PAYGO.pdf).

David Burd and Takeshi Fujitama, FASAB & the Financial Statements of the United States: Comparing Budgetary Aggregates to Financial Statements, (May 3, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/13-FASAB.pdf).

David Burd and Brad Shron, Analysis & Critique of Specialized Rules: Discre-tionary Caps, Spending Targets, and Committee Allocations (May 4, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/1-SpecializedRules.pdf).

Leonard E. Burman and William G. Gale, A Preliminary Evaluation of the Tax Reform Panel's Report, tax notes, Dec. 5, 2005, at 1349.

Jackie Calmes, CBO See Wider Deficit this Year and in 2016 if Tax Cuts Don't End, wall st. j., Jan. 27, 2006, at A4.

Colin F. Camerer and Dan Lovallo, Overconfidence and Excess Entry: An Experimental Analysis, 89 am. econ. rev., 306 (1999).

Richard S. Carnell, Handling the Failure of a Government Sponsored Enterprise, 80 wash l. rev. 565 (2005).

Mark Champoux and Dan Sullivan, Authorizations and Appropriations: A Distinction Without Difference? (May 10, 2006) (available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/hjackson/auth_appro_15.pdf).

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William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag, Economic Effects of Sustained Budget Deficits, 56 nat'l tax j. 463 (2003).

Elizabeth Garrett, Harnessing Politics: The Dynamics of Offset Requirements in the Tax Legislative Process, 65 u. chi. l. rev. 501 (1998).

J. Gokhale & K. Smetters, Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: An Update (Cato Inst. Paper No 0501, 2005).

Robert E. Hall and Frederic S. Mishkin, The Sensitivity of Consumption to Transitory Income: Estimates from Panel Data on Households, 50 econometrica 461 (1982).

Trenton Hamilton and Matthew Scogin, Broader Budget Aggregates: Proposed Reform Legislation (May 4, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/14-BroaderBudgetAggregates.pdf).

R. Glenn Hubbard, Jonathan Skinner, and Stephen P. Zeldes, Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance, 103 j. pol. econ. 360 (1995).

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Kenneth L. Judd, Debt and Distortionary Taxation in a Simple Perfect Foresight Model, 20 j. monetary econ. 51 (1987).

Daniel Kahneman and Dan Lovallo, Timid Choices and Bold Forecasts: A Cognitive Perspective on Risk Taking, 39 management science 17 (1993).

Hiroyuki Kohyama and Allison Quick, Accrual Accounting in Federal Budgeting: Retirement Benefits for Government Workers (May 1, 2006) (available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/hjackson/RetirementBenefits_25.pdf).

Tehila Kogut and Ilana Ritov, The “Identified Victim” Effect: An Identified Group, or Just a Single Individual?, 18 risk & uncertainty 157 (2005).

Laurence Kotlikoff and Christain Hagist, Who's Going Broke? Comparing Health Care Costs in Ten OECD Countries (Nat'l Bureau of Econ. Research, Working Paper No. 11833, 2005) (available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w11833).

David E. Lebow and Jeremy B. Rudd, Measurement Error in the Consumer Price Index: Where Do We Stand?, 41 j. econ. lit. 159 (2003).

Deborah Lucas and Marvin Phaup, The Cost of Risk to the Government and Its Implications for Federal Budgeting (Feb. 2007) (unpublished manuscript on file with author).

John Maggs, Feeding the Beast, nat'l j., March 2005, at 689.

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, The Humpty Dumpty Blues: Disaggregation Bias in the Evaluation of Tax Systems, 91 organizational behavior & human decision processes 230 (2003).

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, Framing and Taxation: Evaluation of Tax Policies Involving Household Composition, 25 J. econ. psychology 679 (2004).

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, Isolation Effects and the Neglect of Indirect Effects of Fiscal Policies, 19 J. behavioral decision making 289 (2006).

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron, Thinking about Tax, 12 psychology, pub. pol'y, & law 106 (2006).

Franco Modigliani, Long Run Implications of Alternative Fiscal Policies and the Burden of the National Debt, 71 econ. j. 730 (1961).

Sita Nataraj and John B. Shoven, Has the Unified Budget Undermined the Government Trust Funds? (NBER Working Paper W10953, Dec. 2004).

Neill Perry and Puja Seams, Accrual Accounting for Federal Credit Programs: The Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (Apr. 20, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/6-AccrualAccounting.pdf).

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James Poterba and Lawrence H. Summers, Finite Lifetimes and the Effects of Budget Deficits on National Savings, 20 j. monetary econ. 369 (1987).

Edward C. Prescott, Prosperity and Depression, 92 am. econ. rev. 1 (2002).

Thomas J. Sargent and Neil Wallace, Some Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic, 5 fed. res. bank of minneapolis q. rev. 1 (1981).

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Jared Shirck and Francis Shen, The Role of Estimation in Budget Procedures: Baselines (May 4, 2005) (available at http://lawweb.usc.edu/cslp/conferences/fiscal%20challenges/documents/4-Baselines.pdf).

Deborah A. Small and George Loewenstein, Helping the Victim or Helping a Victim: Altruism and Identifiability, 26 risk & uncertainty 5 (2003).

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James Tobin, The Burden of the Public Debt: A Review Article, 20 j. fin. 679 (1965).

Stanley C.Wisniewski, Potential State Government Practices Impact of the New GASB Accounting Standard for Retiree Health Benefits, 25 public budgeting & fin. 104 (Mar. 2005).

Michael Woodford, Price Level Determinacy without Control of a Monetary Aggregate, 43 Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series 1 (1995).

Michael Woodford, Fiscal Requirements for Price Stability, 33 j. money, credit & banking 669 (2001).

Linda Babcock et al., Gender Differences in the Propensity to Initiate Negotiations, in social psychology and economics (David De Cramer et al. eds., 2006).

Jonathan Baron, thinking and deciding (3rd ed. 2000).

Michael J. Boskin, Marc S. Robinson, and Alan M. Huber, Government Saving, Capital Formation, and Wealth in the United States, in the measurement of saving, investment and wealth (Robert E. Lipsey, Helen Stone Tice eds., 1989).

James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, the calculus of constraint: logical foundations of constitutional democracy (1962).

Robert Eisner, how real is the federal deficit? (1986).

Douglas W. Elmendorf and Gregory Mankiw, Government Debt, in handbook of macroeconomics, (John B. Taylor and Michael Woodford eds., Volume 1C 1999).

Eric M. Engen and R. Glenn Hubbard, Federal Government Debt and Interest Rates, in nber macroeconomic annual (Mark Gertler and Kenneth Rogoff eds., 2005).

Jagadesh Gokhale and Kent Smetters, Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: An Update, in tax policy and the economy (James M. Poterba eds., Volume 20 2006).

Jagadeesh Gokhale and Kent Smetters, fiscal and generational imbalances (2003).

Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka, the flat tax (1983).

Howell E. Jackson, Accounting for Social Security Benefits, in behavioral public finance (Edward J. McCaffery and Joel Slemrod eds., 2006).

Thomas Laubach, new evidence on the interest rate effects of budget deficits and debt, board of governors of the fed. res. sys. (2003).

George Loewenstein, Deborah Small and James Strnad, Statistical, Identifiable and Iconic Victims and Perpetrators, in behavioral public finance (Edward J. McCaffery and Joel Slemrod eds., 2006).

Robert A. Mundell, Money, Debt and the Rate of Interest, in monetary theory: inflation, interest, and growth in the world economy (Robert A. Mundell ed., 1971).

Allen Schick, the federal budget process (2000).

Daniel Shaviro, do deficits matter? (1999).

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congressional budget office, u.s. cong., the long-term budget outlook (Dec. 2005).

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