Defining “Big Data” In Antitrust

By Xavier Boutin & Georg Clemens – 

This paper provides a definition of “big data” in antitrust. While big data has become an important topic in the antitrust literature and in competition policy practice, no clear-cut definition of big data has been provided yet. This contribution fills a gap, clarifying that a big data definition should not be volume centered but instead include aspects of data analysis and aspects of data variety. The definition provided in this paper can resol