C Wang, J Wright - Journal of the European Economic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We consider platforms that help consumers discover and transact with suppliers. Such platforms have come to dominate many sectors of the economy, raising issues about the …
R Gomes, A Mantovani - Journal of the European Economic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Online intermediaries greatly expand consumer information, but also raise sellers' marginal costs by charging high commissions. To prevent disintermediation, some platforms adopted …
Using an exhaustive database of bookings in one large chain of hotels active in Oslo (2013- 2016), we estimate a nested-logit demand model that allows us to evaluate substitution …
F Wals, MP Schinkel - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2018 - Elsevier
The price parity clauses (PPCs) that online booking platforms impose have come under antitrust scrutiny. Wang and Wright (2017) show how by preventing showrooming, a narrow …
C Teh, C Wang, M Watanabe - Journal of Economic Theory, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper explores the relationship between market accessibility and various participants' welfare in an intermediated directed-search market. For a general class of meeting …
M Maruyama, Y Zennyo - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper examines the effects of platform most-favored-customer (PMFC) clauses on incentives for platforms to invest in demand-enhancing investments that might involve …
Dominant platforms such as Booking. com and Amazon often impose Price Parity Clauses to prevent sellers from charging lower prices on alternative sales channels. We provide quasi …
Dominant platforms such as Booking. com and Amazon often impose Price Parity Clauses to prevent sellers from charging lower prices on alternative sales channels. We provide quasi …