The length of time that the U.S. Treasury Department takes to print and mail tax rebate checks to help the economy out of a recession is part of the:

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The outside lag is the time it takes for the government to implement a policy after it has been identified as a problem. In this case, the government has identified the recession as a problem and is implementing a policy of printing and mailing tax rebate checks to help the economy out of the recession. The time it takes to print and mail the checks is the outside lag.

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