Simon-Pierre Boucher

Professor · Dept. of Administrative Sciences · UQO

Simon-Pierre
Boucher

Financial econometrics researcher and macOS/AI developer.

Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Gatineau — Pavillon Alexandre-Taché · Bilingual — French and English

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Fig. 1 — S.-P. BoucherGatineau, QC

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Peer-reviewed publication

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42

Working papers

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Book (1,933 pages)

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9

Native macOS apps

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30+

Open-source repositories

Profile

About

Simon-Pierre Boucher is a Professor in the Department of Administrative Sciences at Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). His research focuses on financial econometrics, commodity markets, monetary policy announcements, high-frequency finance, volatility modelling, textual analysis, and financialization. He is completing a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance and Insurance) at Université Laval under the supervision of Prof. Marie-Hélène Gagnon and Prof. Gabriel Power. Alongside his academic work, he builds native macOS applications focused on AI and local LLMs (the Zyquo suite).

Background

Education

Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance and Insurance)

Université Laval · 2020–Present

M.Sc. in Business Administration (Finance)

Université Laval · 2017–2019

Thesis: Impact of Commuting Times on Residential Property Values: Evidence from the Province of Québec

B.B.A. in Business Administration (Finance)

Université Laval · 2013–2017

Latest

Research Highlights

A peer-reviewed publication in The Energy Journal, a 1,933-page treatise on real-estate appraisal in Quebec, and a series of 42 UQO working papers — each with a public code repository.

Publication · 2025

Speculative Trading in Energy Markets: Evidence from Macroeconomic Surprises

Boucher, S.-P., Gagnon, M.-H., & Power, G. J. — The Energy Journal

Does speculative trading amplify macroeconomic news in energy futures? Using five-minute data and 26 announcement series, greater speculation dampens price drift and volatility while improving liquidity.

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Newest working papers
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Cover of Évaluation immobilière résidentielle et multirésidentielle au Québec
Book · 2026
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Évaluation immobilière résidentielle et multirésidentielle au Québec

Fondements, méthodes et applications avancées

A university treatise on residential and multi-residential appraisal in Quebec: the legal and institutional framework, market analysis, the sales-comparison, cost and income approaches, land valuation, depreciation, hedonic and panel models, assessment rolls and taxation, and four complete worked cases. Every number, figure and table is regenerated by scripts in the companion repository.

Read the book (PDF, 13 MB)Sources, data & scripts

Toolbox

Technical Skills

Languages & frameworks

Python
TypeScript/JavaScript
R
MATLAB
SAS/STATA
SQL
Julia
C++
Swift/SwiftUI
LaTeX
React/Next.js
Node.js
FastAPI
Flask
Streamlit
Tailwind CSS
shadcn/ui
Framer Motion

Data & econometrics

Pandas
NumPy
statsmodels
scikit-learn
VAR
BVAR
HAR
GARCH
DCC-GARCH
Event studies
High-frequency analysis
Realized volatility
FRED
FMP
EODHD
Yahoo Finance
World Bank
IMF
OECD

AI, LLMs & agents

Claude/Anthropic SDK
OpenAI API
OpenRouter
Vercel AI SDK
Ollama
llama.cpp
GGUF
Hugging Face
Embeddings
RAG
Vector databases
Tool-augmented agents
LoRA
QLoRA
SFT fine-tuning