.S., we compare this bias between U.S. Cold War (CW) allies to non-CW allies, before and after the CW ended. The results show …

propose a new methodology to deal with transaction prices and to estimate the effect of alliances in the US domestic market …

We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects … efforts. We then perform an empirical analysis using data on the Second Congo War, a conflict that involves many groups in a … complex network of informal alliances and rivalries. We estimate the fighting externalities, and use these to infer the extent …

We consider an empirical model of worldwide airlines’ alliances that we apply to a large set of companies for the … current alliances' pricing habits are not uniform and range from individual Nash to more competitive behaviours. …

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically the relationship between trade and war. We show that the intuition … that trade promotes peace is only partially true even in a model where trade is beneficial to all, war reduces trade and … leaders take into account the costs of war. When war can occur because of the presence of asymmetric information, the …