This paper analyzes the impact of varying degrees of airline cooperation on nonstop and connecting international traffic, using a detailed dataset of international travel between the United States and other countries for the years 1998 to 2015. We demonstrate that cooperation by airlines —...

The success breeds success hypothesis has been mainly applied to theoretical network approaches. We investigate the European aerospace industry using data on the European Framework Programmes and on Airbus suppliers, focusing on the success breeds success hypothesis at four levels of analysis:...

The paper investigates how competition between two multiproduct downstream firms in vertical relationships affects horizontal relationships: competitor collaboration and performance difference. When the upstream market consists of exclusive suppliers, the efficient firm may have incentive for...

The global airline industry has witnessed the formation of multiple-partner alliances or "constellations" competing against each other for both clients and members. In this paper I empirically evaluate the proposition that membership in airline constellations allows carriers to capture...

The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the inventors. The residences of the inventors show different patterns in the two datasets. Furthermore, we analyze the spatial distance between inventors for patents invented in...

This paper studies the impact of collaboration on research output. First, we build a micro-founded model for scientific knowledge production, where collaboration between researchers is represented by a bipartite network. The equilibrium of the game incorporates both the complementarity effect...