The airline ticket booking system we are proposing provides total freedom for passengers, where the passenger can use his personal computer to log on to the website and book his ticket. The airline ticket booking system allows only registered users or passengers to reserve flight tickets, view...

Tourism is one of the most important sectors in the economy as it helps increase revenue and improves the standard of living in a country. Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide and in general, the Internet continues to gain importance in the tourism sector. Information is a...

In der vorliegenden Studie werden auf der Basis einer Befragung mit 1.158 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern die Travel Journeys von Digital Natives und Digital Immigrants verglichen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen unter anderem, dass die digitalen Touchpoints sowohl für die Digital Natives als auch für...

In der vorliegenden Studie werden auf der Basis einer Befragung mit 1.158 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern die Travel Journeys von Digital Natives und Digital Immigrants verglichen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen unter anderem, dass die digitalen Touchpoints sowohl für die Digital Natives als auch für...

Digital platforms are not only match-making intermediaries but also establish internal rules that govern all users in their ecosystems. To better understand the governing role of platforms, we study two Airbnb pro-guest rules that pertain to guest and host cancellations, using data on Airbnb and...

Digital platforms are not only match-making intermediaries but also establish internal rules that govern all users in their ecosystems. To better understand the governing role of platforms, we study two Airbnb pro-guest rules that pertain to guest and host cancellations, using data on Airbnb and...

We present evidence that discrimination against Asian-American Airbnb users sharply increased at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a DiD approach, we find that hosts with distinctively Asian names experienced a 12 percent decline in guests relative to hosts with distinctively White...

Einführung in die Thematik -- Vermittlungsplattformen für Privatunterkünfte in der Sharing Economy -- Theoretischer Bezugsrahmen zur Erklärung der Akzeptanz von Privatunterkunftsvermittlern -- Empirie- und theoriegeleitete Modellierung der Akzeptanz von Privatunterkunftsvermittlern --...

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...

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...

Estimating consumer surplus is challenging because it requires identification of the entire demand curve. We rely on Uber's “surge” pricing algorithm and the richness of its individual level data to first estimate demand elasticities at several points along the demand curve. We then use...

Estimating consumer surplus is challenging because it requires identification of the entire demand curve. We rely on Uber's "surge" pricing algorithm and the richness of its individual level data to first estimate demand elasticities at several points along the demand curve. We then use these...

The dynamics of online searching and purchasing is becoming better known and understood as researchers study various products sold via the Web. Even though there is a prevalence of travel products purchased online, integrated frameworks that identify the various determinants of the decision...

In this study, we document and analyze price-offer curves (the dynamics of offered prices as the departure date approaches) for 105 specific round trip itineraries on 50 busy US routes. The data were collected from the three leading on-line travel agents' web-sites. We exploit across-route...

Die Wettbewerbsintensität des Schienenpersonenfernverkehrs (SPFV) hat sich in Deutschland seit der Bahnreform im Vergleich zum Schienenpersonennahverkehr (SPNV) und Schienengüterverkehr (SGV) nur sehr zurückhaltend entwickelt. Die Deutsche Bahn AG ist mit 99 % Marktanteil im SPFV noch immer...

In this paper, we emphasize that choice sets generated by a search process have two properties: first, they are limited; second, they are endogenous to preferences. Both factors lead to biased estimates in a static demand framework that takes choice sets as given. To correct for this bias, we...