Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017 - This version: April 23, 2017
,000 hotels in different countries. We find that BPCs influence the pricing and availability of hotel rooms across online sales … channels. In particular, the abolition of Booking.com's narrow BPC is associated with the hotels' direct channel having the … strictly lowest price more often. Moreover, hotels publish their offers more often at Booking.com when it does not use the …