Why is it necessary to lag macro data while working on firm level Analysis?

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I'm carrying out a research on infrastructures and firms survival, and I have as my part of my controls macro variables like growth of GDP. I observed that existing empirical literature used the lagged terms of such variables, but without enough explanations... I will appreciate your contributions.

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