Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2018
lower hotel prices at other OTAs or on their own websites. We formally characterize how an OTA can use such a strategy to … reduce price differentiation across distribution channels. Our empirical analysis shows that the position of a hotel in the … search results of OTAs is better when the prices charged by the hotel on other channels are higher. This is consistent with …
