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Feasibility of a Controlled Economic Experiment
A team of economists wants to definitively determine the causal effect of a country's central bank interest rate on the level of private business investment. To meet the scientific standard of a controlled experiment, they propose a study where they would direct the central bank to set interest rates at specific levels for several years while holding all other economic factors constant. Identify and explain the two most significant reasons why conducting this study as a conventional, controlled experiment would be practically impossible.
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