Glattfelder, James B.

ETH Zürich James B. Glattfelder Systemgestaltung KPL F 29.2 Kreuzplatz 5 8032 Zurich SWITZERLAND Phone: +41 44 632 82 46 Fax: +41 44 632 18 80 E-Mail:

Research

• Empirical analysis of ownership relations of a large database of international companies
• Development and empirical validation of an agent-based model describing some of the observed properties of the ownership network
• Testing of economic hypothesis pertaining to issues such as ownership vs. control, or the structural impact of forces driven by policy decisions and globalization trends

Topics

• Complexity; complex systems
• Networks and their evolution
• Agent-based simulations

Publications

• Backbone of complex networks of corporations: The flow of control; J.B. Glattfelder, S. Battiston; Phys. Rev. E 80, 1 (2009); arXiv preprint
• An extensive set of scaling laws and the FX coastline; J.B. Glattfelder, A. Dupuis, R.B. Olsen; 2008; arXiv preprint

Presentations

• The Backbone of Control, Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society, Working Group Physics of Socio-Economic Systems (AKSOE): Social, Information- and Production Networks, 27th of February, 2008, Berlin, Germany, PDF
• Global Ownership: Unveiling the Structures of Real-World Complex Networks, Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society, Section Dynamics and Statistical Physics (DY): Statistical Physics of Complex Networks, 25th of February, 2008, Berlin, Germany, PDF
• The Network of Global Corporate Control, CCSS International Workshop, 9th of June, 2009, Zurich, Switzerland (photos)

Media

• livescience.com: World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few
• sciencenews.org: Networks Reveal Concentrated Ownership of Corporations - Analysis of stock markets in 48 countries finds backbones of control
• arxivblog.com: Econophysicists identify world’s top 10 most powerful companies

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• From the end of 2006, Ph.D. studies, Chair of Systems Design, ETH, Zurich
• 1992 – 1999, MSc. in Physics, ETH, Zurich: High energy particle physics (Masters Thesis)
• 1992, Economics Matura, Lyceum Alpinum, Zuoz

Work Experience

• 2002 - present, Researcher/Programmer, Olsen Ltd., Zurich: R&D of quantitative trading strategies; R&D graphical tools identifying statistical properties and patterns in the FX markets; agent-based algorithms; OO-design implementation using C++/Java in a Unix/Linux environment

Miscellanea

• 2000 - 2001: Trip around the world

Interests

• Linux systems administration
• Webtechnologies
• A little philosophy
• Environmental issues
• Society and subculture

Hobbies

• Snowboarding, rock climbing, surfing, travel

Links

Web Presence

• Homepage: j-node.homeip.net
• Blogs: techBlog, zeitgeistBlog
• Follow me on twitter
• Summary

Projects

• Charity: noon.ch
• Community portal: jth.ch