Access Barriers to Big Data

47 Pages Posted: 29 Aug 2016 Last revised: 8 Oct 2017

See all articles by Daniel L. Rubinfeld

Daniel L. Rubinfeld

University of California at Berkeley - School of Law; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); NYU Law School

Michal Gal

University of Haifa - Faculty of Law

Date Written: August 26, 2016

Abstract

While data were always valuable in a range of economic activities, the advent of new and improved technologies for the collection, storage, mining, synthesizing, and analysis of data has led to the ability to utilize vast volumes of data in real-time in order to learn new information. Part I explores the four primary characteristics of big data: volume, velocity, variety, and veracity and their effects of the value of data. Part II analyzes the different types of access barriers that limit entry into the different links of the data value chain. In Part III, we tie together the characteristics of big data markets including potential entry barriers, to analyze their competitive effects. The analysis centers on those instances in which the unique characteristics of big data markets lead to variants in the more traditional competitive analysis. Our analysis suggests that the unique characteristics of big data have an important role to play in analyzing competition and in evaluating social welfare.

Keywords: big data, entry barriers

JEL Classification: L1, L40

Suggested Citation

Rubinfeld, Daniel L. and Gal, Michal, Access Barriers to Big Data (August 26, 2016). 59 Arizona Law Review 339 (2017), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2830586 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2830586

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