.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 …

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 …

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

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. …

states and growing divergence between European powers. In our model, the impact of war on the European state system depends … on: i) the importance of money for determining the war outcome (which stands for the cost of war), and ii) a country … of war. Initially, this caused more internally cohesive states to invest more in state capacity, while other (more …

Contestants have to choose whether to initiate a contest or war, or whether to remain peaceful for another period. We …