It's a match! Linking foreign counterparts in Italian customs data to their balance sheets

Crispino Marta () and Francesco Conteduca
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Crispino Marta: Bank of Italy

No 823, Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: This paper describes the methodology underlying the matching between non-EU counterparts in the Italian Customs and Monopolies Agency data and firms in the Bureau van Dijk Orbis database. Through different validation exercises, we show that the matches stemming from our proposed procedure are largely correct regarding both records and transaction values. The resulting corresponding tables can serve as a useful tool to shed light on the features of the counterparts of Italian firms active in international trade.

Keywords: record linkage; big data integration; customs data; balance sheet data; name harmonization; blocking; entity matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C55 C81 C88 D22 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-12
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