Research Working Papers

Domain

Market microstructure

Price discovery, liquidity, fragility and the behaviour of trading agents.

4 papers

WP36

The Hidden Dynamics of Used-Car Markets: Price Discovery, Inventory Liquidity, and Strategic Dealer Behavior

Evidence from a Daily Panel of 273,265 Quebec Listings

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · November 2026 · v1.0

The paper studies price discovery and liquidity in the Quebec used-car market with a daily panel of 273,265 dealer listings observed by the aggregator Auto-Ka between 12 August and 1 November 2026, with every asking-price change and listing disappearance recorded about seven times a day. Hedonic models with flexible…

WP27

The Invisible Hand of Machines: Price Discovery in Markets Populated by LLM Agents

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · October 2026 · v1.0

What happens to price discovery when a growing share of the traders in a market are autonomous language-model agents? The paper builds an event-sourced continuous double-auction exchange with exact accounting, a latent dividend process that separates fundamental value from public value and transaction price, seven…

WP15

Faster, Wider, More Fragile? The Evolution of Intraday Shock Propagation in U.S. Equity Markets, 1992–2026

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · October 2026 · v1.1

This paper studies how intraday shocks travel across U.S. equities using 7.69 billion one-minute bars covering the full listed and delisted cross-section from 1992 to 2026. Three findings emerge. First, isolated idiosyncratic shocks barely spread: across 1.85 million ±6σ one-minute events, the abnormal share of other…

WP08

Prediction Markets as Arrow–Debreu Securities: Evidence from Polymarket

State Prices, No-Arbitrage Bounds and Macroeconomic News in Blockchain-Based Contingent Claims

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · October 2026 · v1.1

Negative-risk events on Polymarket list one binary contract for every outcome of a decision and settle exactly one of them at one dollar, so that their prices are observable analogues of Arrow–Debreu state prices. The paper uses the five-outcome market on the June 2026 FOMC decision (146 daily closes, December 2025 to…