We briefly review the rationale behind technological alliances and provide a snapshot of their role in global … between technology alliances, competition policy, and industrial policy. …

We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries …, we show that there do not exist any networks that are stable against the addition and deletion of alliances. We then show … that economic benefits from international trade can provide incentives to form alliances in ways that restore stability and …

Innovative startups are frequently acquired by large incumbent firms. On the one hand, these acquisitions provide an … startups just to "kill" their ideas, and acquisitions can erode incumbents' own innovation incentives. Our paper aims to assess … the net effect of these forces. To do so, we build an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms and acquisitions …

either a whole market alliance or partial alliances made of subsets of consecutive firms in order to collude in prices … in which alliances can set endogenously qualities, prices and number of variants on sale. I show that, in every formed …