Many countries pressured by the G20 to adopt stimulus, including Poland, effectively relabeled policies they were already pursuing (such as already-scheduled tax changes) as 'stimulus' rather than genuinely overdoing fiscal expansion, which makes cross-country stimulus comparisons very hard and creates rich natural experiments for research.

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John Taylor

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one of the greatest research opportunities is all these natural experiments around the world because of all the packages

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John Taylor on the State of the Economy 07/19/2010EconTalk
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