Based on the industrial production of 74 U.S. manufacturing industries, we identify the turning points of industry cycles. Industry peaks and troughs are concentrated around national turning points, confirming that the comovement is a salient feature of the business cycle. However, we find a...

We identify cyclical turning points for 74 U.S. manufacturing industries and uncover new empirical regularities: (a) industries tend to comove between expansion and contraction phases over the business cycle; (b) clusters of industry turning points are highly asymmetric between peaks and troughs:...