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Idiosyncratic uncertainty, capacity utilization and the business cycle

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  • Portier, Franck
  • Fagnart, Jean-François
  • Licandro, Omar

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This paper analyses the basic features of technical and distributional changes in the US since the Civil War as the expression of the gradual emergence of a new paradigm, corresponding to a Managerial Revolution, and its replacement of the earlier organization inherited from the Industrial Revolution.

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  • Portier, Franck & Fagnart, Jean-François & Licandro, Omar, 1996. "Idiosyncratic uncertainty, capacity utilization and the business cycle," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Couverture Orange) 9607, CEPREMAP.
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