REFLEX: Registry of Firms' Life and Exit
Istituto di economia politica
Data: 3 Settembre 2024 / 12:00 - 18:00
East Campus Lugano, Room C1.03
The NRP-77 Sinergia meeting on REFLEX - A Data Platform for the Swiss Commercial Registry (1883-present) brings together researchers and practitioners interested in the study of firms and business groups in Switzerland.
The Data Platform has the objective to recreate the 140-year history of all firms in Switzerland. It will shed lights on the different stages in the life of a company, from its founding to its dissolution (including relocations, changes in legal form, mergers and acquisitions,..), identify all owners and investors, and reconstruct groups of related companies, national or foreign, active in Switzerland.
The event is part of the Sinergia project "Institutional Foundations of Industrialization, Financialization and Globalization of the Swiss Economy. Evidence from 140 Years of the Commercial Registry" (https://data.sn.ch/grants/grant/209465) and the NP 77 "Companies and Tax Competition in the Digital Economy" (https://www.nfp77.ch/en/4WbWzX5KWv6B4hRx/project/companies-and-tax-competition-in-the-digital-economy).
Registration is compulsory (please contact [email protected])
Location: Room C1.03, Università della Svizzera italiana, Campus Est (Viganello)
Program
September 3, 2024
| 12.00 | Standing Lunch |
| 13.00 | Welcome Raphaël Parchet (USI) & Marco D’Ambros (CodeLounge, USI) |
| 13.10 | Extracting One Hundred and Forty Years of Commercial Registry Entries Valerie Burgener, Aron Fiechter, Andrea Mocci (CodeLounge, USI) |
| 13.30 | Classifying the Commercial Registry Entries Jesper Findahl, Andrea Mocci (CodeLounge, USI) |
| 14.15 | Firm Dynamics over the Past 140 Years in Switzerland Raphaël Parchet (USI) |
| 14.45 | Discussion (moderator: Marco D’Ambros, CodeLounge, USI) |
| 15.00 | Coffee |
| 15.30 | Books Go Public: The Consequences of the Expropriation of Monastic Libraries on Innovation Marcello Puca (University of Bergamo) |
| 16.15 | Studying the Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Occupations in Lausanne Rémi Petitpierre (EPFL) |
| 17.00 | 130 Years of the Swiss Parliament: From PDF Extraction to New Forms of Content Analysis Laurence Brandenberger (ETH) |
| 17.45 | Discussion (moderator: Tina Freyburg, University of St Gallen) |
| 18.00 | Networking aperitif |
