on the success of the other party, makes collaboration a preferred solution. Divergence in research goals may, however …I analyze, in the context of business and science research collaboration, how the characteristics of partnership …

This paper analyzes the strategic decision to integrate by firms that produce complementary products. Integration … entails bundling pricing. We find out that integration is privately profitable for a high enough degree of product … integrate despite the fact that prices diminish. Thus, integration of a system is welfare-improving for a high enough degree of …

This paper studies the incentives of short-lived agents to acquire costly private information in the presence of public … signals arising from market interaction. It characterizes the social learning process, that is the revelation of information … by public signals, and the information externalities involved. The analysis provides insights on the scope for government …