The paper explores the divergent U.S. integrationist and Chinese coexistence programs of international order. The U.S. program of international order is based on the aspiration to create a unison international order on the basis of the liberal concepts of civil rights, democracy and market...

We investigate whether patents that are jointly held by legally independent companies help sustain product-market collusion. We use a simple model of repeated interactions to show that joint patents can serve collusive purposes. Our model generates two testable predictions: when joint patents...