Online platforms often impose Price Parity Clauses to prevent sellers from charging lower prices on alternative sales channels. We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the full removal of Price Parity Clauses in France in 2015 for hotels listed on Booking.com . Our analysis reveals significant price decreases in the short run, but a more limited effect in the medium run. However, hotels characterized by a more complex organizational struc- ture decreased their prices more substantially. Overall, the intervention appears to have benefited a subset of consumers using Booking.com
Mantovani Andrea, P.C. (2021). Online platform price parity clauses: Evidence from the EU Booking.com case. EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 131, 1-27 [10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103625].
Online platform price parity clauses: Evidence from the EU Booking.com case
Mantovani Andrea;
2021
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Online platforms often impose Price Parity Clauses to prevent sellers from charging lower prices on alternative sales channels. We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the full removal of Price Parity Clauses in France in 2015 for hotels listed on Booking.com . Our analysis reveals significant price decreases in the short run, but a more limited effect in the medium run. However, hotels characterized by a more complex organizational struc- ture decreased their prices more substantially. Overall, the intervention appears to have benefited a subset of consumers using Booking.com| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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