Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1023301 | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review | 2014 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
In this article, using data from the Italian airline market, we study the role of online travel agents (OTAs) in driving price dispersion as compared to the effect of airlines’ websites. Specifically, we investigate how distinctive factors between OTAs and airlines’ direct channels influence price dispersion. We find that after controlling for OTAs’ features related to airline competition, price dispersion should be lower in the OTA channel relative to airlines’ direct channels. On the other hand, we also find that OTAs’ features related to the presence of airline competition play in favor of higher price dispersion in such indirect channel.
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Authors
Paolo Roma, Fabio Zambuto, Giovanni Perrone,