Does competition benefit complements? Evidence from airlines and hotels
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Author(s)
Forbes, Silke
Kosova, Renata
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We analyze how changes in the market structure of one industry – airlines – affect the performance of firms in a complementary industry – hotels – using an instrumental variables strategy to account for potential correlation between unobserved shocks to both markets. We find that more intense airline competition boosts hotel performance across all standard measures: price, occupancy rate, and revenue per available room. Spillovers vary across hotel quality and passenger type: lower-quality branded hotels serving more price-sensitive travelers, most likely brought into the market because of more intense airline competition, benefit the most. However, performance spillovers do not translate into higher hotel entry.
Date Issued
2023-08-01
Date Acceptance
2022-03-16
Citation
Management Science, 2023, 69 (8), pp.4733-4752
ISSN
0025-1909
Publisher
Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences
Start Page
4733
End Page
4752
Journal / Book Title
Management Science
Volume
69
Issue
8
Copyright Statement
© 2022, INFORMS.
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2022-10-19