Simon-Pierre Boucher Research Observatory · Université du Québec en Outaouais
An open collection of research in finance, economics, artificial intelligence, real estate, and quantitative science.
Research, methods, and evidence at the frontier of quantitative science.
Can product-level online catalogues reveal the spatial organisation, diversity and specialization of a regional retail economy beyond what business counts show? This paper studies one read-only snapshot (1 November 2026) of Fabri-Ka, an aggregator of the…
Committees of role-specialised language-model agents that debate before answering are increasingly proposed as valuation tools. This paper asks whether the debate adds information. In a preregistered experiment on 631,866 arm's-length residential sales…
Distributed maximum likelihood estimation trades statistical efficiency for communication. The paper studies a two-phase protocol in which each of K workers corrects the bias of its local maximum likelihood estimator by an r-th order split-sample…
Agents built on language models hand information to one another as text, summaries, structured evidence, shared-memory references or, when they share a checkpoint, attention state (the KV cache). This paper asks under which task, model, cache, network and…
Latest release: November 2026