CBO Study: Estimating the Value of Subsidies for Federal Loans and Loan Guarantees

摘要

With credit-reform rules having been in effect for more than a decade, the Chairman of the House Budget Committee has asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to reexamine the provisions of the Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA) with an eye toward identifying possible improvements in, and extensions of, the accrual basis of budgetary accounting. This study - which is one part of CBO's response to that request - focuses on using commercial interest rates, which incorporate risk, instead of risk-free Treasury rates to measure the cost of federal credit programs.