REFLEX: Registry of Firms' Life and Exit
Istituto di economia politica
Data: 1 Settembre 2023 / 09:00 - 17:00
East Campus Lugano, Startup Center
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: Start up center, Università della Svizzera italiana, Campus Est (Viganello)
Program
September 1, 2023
| 09:15 | Networking Breakfast |
| 09.45 | Welcome Raphaël Parchet (USI) & Marco D’Ambros (CodeLounge, USI) |
| 10.00 | Mining a Century of Swiss Trademarks Daniel Travaglia, Andrea Mocci (CodeLounge, USI) |
| 10.30 | OCR is Not Enough: How We Made Computers Read Hundred Years of Commercial Registry Entries Jesper Findahl, Andrea Mocci (CodeLounge, USI) |
| 11.30 | From Entries to Entities: Modeling the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce Aron Fiechter, Francesco Bresciani, Valerie Burgener (CodeLounge, USI) |
| 11.45 | Discussion (moderator: Elliott Ash, ETH) |
| 12:00 | Lunch & Coffee |
| 13.30 | With a Little Help From My Enemy Amanda De Pirro (Lancaster University) |
| 14.00 | You Only Weave Twice Bruno Caprettini (University of St Gallen) |
| 14.30 | Tax Technology and Long-Term Regional Development Tommaso Giommoni (ETH) |
| 15.00 | Coffee |
| 15.30 |
The Cartographic Heritage as a Tool and as an Object of Artificial Intelligence |
| 16.00 | The Crux of Capitalism Simon Evenett (University of St Gallen) |
| 16.30 | Discussion (moderator: Tina Freyburg, University of St Gallen) |
| 17.00 | Networking aperitif |
