This paper analyzes the strategic opportunities enabled by one of Booking.com's managerial innovations introduced in 2015-16: a new online discount feature. Focusing on the hospitality and online booking platforms, we explore the role of the heterogeneity in characteristics that make...

This paper analyses the dynamics of hotel prices listed on Booking.com in the period 2014-16. This period is characterised by the most important antitrust decisions regarding the use of price parity clauses by online travel agencies (OTAs) in the EU. First, we document the dynamics of hotel...