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Hotel rankings of online travel agents, channel pricing, and consumer protection
Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2018
We investigate whether online travel agents (OTAs) assign hotels worse positions in their search results if these set 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...
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Technology transfer and the Internet : a chance for outsiders at public science to get into the business?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2001
The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the … determinants of firm contacts established via the Internet. Special attention is paid to the effect of experiences in firm … interaction in the past. Econometric estimation results suggest that Internet contact to firms is more likely to be established by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446792
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The impact of ICT on profit allocation within multinational groups : arm's length pricing or formula apportionment?
Schäfer, Anne; Spengel, Christoph - 2003
The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) within multinational groups leads to a rising number of intragroup cross-border transactions. At the same time, transactions and the organisational structures of affiliated groups become more and more specific and, thus, less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448681
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Contestability, technology and banking
Corvoisier, Sandrine (contributor); Gropp, Reint (contributor) - 2009
reduziert. Dieses Papier untersucht ob das Internet für Banken zu einer Reduzierung der versunkenen Kosten pro Kunden geführt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806195
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The virtual location of e-tailers : evidence from a B2C e-commerce market
Härting, Julia (contributor) - 2005
An Internet retailer’s (e-tailer’s) outstanding virtual location enhances the probability of being noticed by potential … analysis, an e-tailer’s Internet search engine rank as well as its advertising activities in search engines serve as proxies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003051023
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Evaluation of best price clauses in hotel booking
Hunold, Matthias; Laitenberger, Ulrich; Schlütter, Frank - 2016
We analyze the best price clauses (BPCs) of online travel agents (OTAs) using meta-search price data of more than 45,000 hotels in different countries. Although OTAs apparently have not changed their standard commission rates following the partial ban of BPCs in Europe, we find that BPCs do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543473
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Evaluation of best price clauses in hotel booking
Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017 - This version: December, 2017
We analyze the best price clauses (BPCs) of online travel agents (OTAs) using meta-search price data of more than 45,000 hotels in different countries. Although OTAs apparently have not changed their standard commission rates following the partial ban of BPCs in Europe, we find that BPCs do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778141
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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2011
We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424067
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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2012 - This version: May 25, 2012
We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010219756
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Evaluation of best price clauses in hotel booking
Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017 - This version: April 23, 2017
We analyze the best price clauses (BPCs) of online travel agents (OTAs) using meta-search price data of nearly 30,000 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011648487