When the competitive firm is operating in a stochastic environment and certain conditions regarding expectations and attitude toward risk hold, the response to a neutral technological advance is to reduce factor employment and raise output. The result contradicts the standard deterministic response, which emerges as a special case in the stochastic environment. (JEL, D81)
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