Pierre Giot CONTACT DETAILS PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE (FULL-TIME JOBS) PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE (PART-TIME JOBS)

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1 Pierre Giot Professor of Finance, University of Namur (FUNDP) & CORE, Belgium Director of the Center for Research in Finance and Management Civil Engineer (Polytechnique) in Electronics and Ph.D. in Economics CONTACT DETAILS Marital status: Single; Nationality: Belgian; Date of birth: 22/09/1970 Address: Rue de l Europe 8, B-6700 Arlon, Belgium; Phone: +32(0) pierre.giot@fundp.ac.be PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE (FULL-TIME JOBS) Since September 2001 Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure) at the Dpt. of Business Administration, University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium Courses: Financial Management, Empirical Econometrics, Corporate Finance, Commercial Bank Management, Finance Seminars Fields of research: financial asset volatility, microstructure of financial markets, high frequency intraday data and models, risk management,, credit risk, venture capital economics April 2000 August 2001 Assistant Professor at the Dpt. of Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Courses: GAUSS, Quantitative models in finance, Econometric Methods September 1996 September 2000 Teaching assistant at the Faculté des Sciences Economiques (Université catholique de Louvain) and researcher in financial econometrics at CORE Courses: Exercise courses for Econometrics I & II, doctoral course on intraday data August 1995 September 1996 Consultant for Callataÿ & Wouters (Luxemburg), a consultancy specialized in financial software: design of client-server software solutions for the KredietBank Luxemburg PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE (PART-TIME JOBS) March 2002 May 2002 Invited Professor at the Université Paris 1 Sorbonne, France Course: Financial Econometrics September 2000 September 2005 Invited Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain Courses: Seminar on Financial Markets, Financial Economics

2 CONSULTING EXPERIENCE (PART-TIME JOBS) AND EXECUTIVE TRAINING Cellule d Analyse des Marchés Européens des Fruits (CAMEF): econometric modeling, dynamical systems, market integration Electrabel R&D Energy Markets: econometric modeling Business Software Builders (BSB): portfolio management, risk analysis Euroclear: risk management, and Credit Risk type models Fortis Bank: modelling interest rates on mortgages, savings accounts deposits PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE (SCIENTIFIC APPOINTMENTS) Permanent member of CORE, UCL, Belgium Director of CEREFIM (Center for Research in Finance and Management), University of Namur EDUCATION (GRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE LEVEL) Ph.D. in Economics (financial econometrics, ) at CORE, UCL Thesis: Econometric studies on the formation of prices in financial and commodity markets Thesis Superviser: Prof. Luc Bauwens (UCL) Thesis comitee: Prof. R. Anderson (UCL), O. Scaillet (UCL), J. Jasiak (York University, Toronto, Canada) and A. Roell (Princeton University, U.S.A.) Master of Arts in Economics ( ) and Degree in Economics ( ) at UCL Thesis: A Gibbs sampling approach to cointegration Degree of Civil Engineer (Polytechnique) in Electronics ( ) at UCL Thesis: A VLSI implementation of a neural network PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS AND PH.D. THESIS) 1. Econometric modeling of stock market intraday activity (with L. Bauwens), Kluwer Academic Publishers (2001). 2. Econometric studies on the formation of prices in financial and commodity markets, Ph.D. Thesis, CIACO, Louvain-la-Neuve (1999). PUBLICATIONS (INTERNATIONALLY REFEREED PUBLISHED PAPERS) 3. Implied volatility indices as leading indicators of stock index returns?, forthcoming in Journal of Portfolio Management. 4. News announcements, trading activity and volatility in the Euro-Dollar currency market (with L. Bauwens and W. Ben Omrane), forthcoming in Journal of International Money and Finance. 5. Market risk models for intraday data, forthcoming in European Journal of Finance. 6. A comparison of financial duration models via density forecasts (with L. Bauwens, J. Grammig and D. Veredas), International Journal of Forecasting (2004), 20, Modelling daily using realized volatility and ARCH type models (with S. Laurent), Journal of Empirical Finance (2004), 11, Market risk in commodity markets: a VaR approach (with S. Laurent), Energy Economics (2003), 25, for long and short trading positions (with S. Laurent), Journal of Applied Econometrics (2003), 18,

3 10. Asymmetric ACD model: introducing price information in the ACD model (with L. Bauwens), Empirical Economics (2003), 28, The information content of implied volatility in agricultural commodity markets, Journal of Futures Markets (2003), 23, Quantifying market risk for long and short traders (with S. Laurent), European Investment Review (2002), 1, Time transformations, intraday data, and volatility models, Journal of Computational Finance (2000), Volume 4/Number 2, The logarithmic ACD model : an application to the bid-ask quote process of three NYSE stocks (with L. Bauwens), Annales d Economie et Statistique (2000), 60, A Gibbs sampling approach to cointegration (with L. Bauwens), Computational Statistics (1998), 13, PUBLICATIONS (IN HANDBOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS) 16. ARCH models, in Encyclopedia of Financial Engineering and Risk Management, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London, forthcoming (2005) 17. Autocorrelation, in Encyclopedia of Financial Engineering and Risk Management, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London, forthcoming (2005) 18. Heteroskedasticity, in Encyclopedia of Financial Engineering and Risk Management, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London, forthcoming (2005) 19. Book review: Market Models, by C. Alexander, Journal of Financial Econometrics, forthcoming (2004) PUBLICATIONS (NON-REFEREED PUBLISHED PAPERS) 20. Markets with autoregressive conditional duration models (with L. Bauwens). Instituto Flores de Lemus de Estudios Avanzados en Economia, Bulletin n 65, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. PUBLICATIONS (DISCUSSION PAPERS AND MIMEOS) 21. Dynamic asset allocation between stocks and bonds using the Bond-Equity Yield Ratio (with M. Petitjean). Submitted to Journal of Empirical Finance. 22. Commonalities in the order book (with H. Beltran and J. Grammig). Submitted to Journal of Finance. 23. Endorse or fight the Fed Model? An international analysis of earnings, stock prices and bond yields (with A. Durré). Submitted to Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. 24. How does liquidity react to stress periods in a limit order market? (with H. Beltran and A. Durré), National Bank of Belgium Working Paper 49. Submitted to Journal of Financial Markets. 25. IPOs, trade sales, liquidations: modeling venture capital exits using survival analysis (with A. Schwienbacher), mimeo. 26. The Asian financial crisis: the start of a regime switch in volatility, mimeo. 27. Implied volatility indexes and daily models, mimeo. Submitted to Journal of Derivatives. 28. How large is liquidity risk in an automated auction market? (with J. Grammig), CORE Discussion Paper 2002/54. Submitted to Empirical Economics. 29. Liquidity, volatility and trading activity in the XETRA automated auction market (with H. Beltran and J. Grammig), mimeo. 30. The moments of first-order Log-ACD models (with L. Bauwens and F. Galli), mimeo.

4 31. Cointegration and leadership on the European off-season fresh fruit markets (with B. Henry de Frahan and N. Pirotte), CORE discussion paper n PUBLICATIONS (COURSES) 32. Financial econometrics course. 33. GAUSS tutorial (with J.P. Urbain). 34. Quantitative models in Finance course. 35. Practical econometrics with TSP, Diffusion Universitaire CIACO, Louvain-la-Neuve (1997). PRIZES AND RESEARCH GRANTS : Winner of one of the four National Bank of Belgium research grants ( How does liquidity react to stress periods in a limit order market? ) : Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique FRFC research grant, joint with the Université Libre de Bruxelles (on News announcements and FOREX volatility) SUPERVISION OF PHD THESIS University of Namur: thesis of Mikael Petitjean (forthcoming in 2006, quantitative finance) PHD THESIS JURY MEMBERSHIP Facultés Universitaires catholiques de Mons (FUCAM): thesis of Catherine D Hondt ( Les ordres caches sur Euronext: un compromis stratégique entre liquidité et transparence ) Katholiek Universiteit Leuven (KUL): thesis of Gust Janssens ( Advanced modeling of conditional volatility and correlation in financial markets ) REFEREEING Computational Statistics Empirical Economics International Journal of Statistics (METRON) International Review of Economics and Finance Journal of Applied Econometrics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Economics and Business Journal of International Money and Finance European Finance Association (2004 meeting) Journal of Futures Markets Revue Finance Recherches Economiques de Louvain The Financial Review Journal of Econometrics Journal of Empirical Finance Journal of Financial Econometrics International Journal of Forecasting The Energy Journal PRESENTED COMMUNICATIONS AT SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES 1. University of Amsterdam Finance Seminar, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2004: The interplay of volatility and liquidity. Evidence from the Euronext trading platform 2. Second European Deloitte Conference in Risk Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium, March 2004: Implied volatility indexes and daily models 3. CORE Seminar in Econometrics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, October 2003: IPOs, trade sales, liquidations: modeling venture capital exits using survival analysis 4. CREST Finance Seminar, Paris, France, October 2003: How large is liquidity risk in automated auction markets? 5. ISMACentre Finance Seminar, University of Reading, UK, March 2003: The information content of implied volatility indices for forecasting volatility and risk

5 LANGUAGES 6. University of Namur Economics Seminar, Namur, Belgium, February 2003: The information content of implied volatility indices for forecasting volatility and risk 7. CORE Seminar in Econometrics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November 2002: The information content of implied volatility indices for forecasting volatility and risk 8. Association Française de Finance (AFFI 2001), Namur, Belgium, June 2001: Intraday 9. Forecasting Financial Markets, 8 th Conference, London, England, May 2001: Intraday 10. Belgian Financial Research Forum, Ghent University, Belgium, April 2001: Intraday 11. Seminar at the Dpt. Of Finance, Ghent University, Belgium, February 2001: Time transformations, volatility models and intraday data 12. Seminar at the Dpt. Of Business Administration, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain, November 2000: Intraday 13. CORE Seminar in Econometrics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, October 2000: Intraday 14. Financial Econometrics, 10 th (EC) 2 Conference, Madrid, Spain, December 1999: Asymmetric ACD models: introducing price information in ACD models with a two state transition model 15. CORE Seminar in Econometrics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November 1999: Time transformations, volatility models and intraday data 16. GREMAQ Econometrics and Statistics seminar, Toulouse, France, March 1999: Asymmetric ACD models: introducing price information in ACD models with a two state transition model 17. Rencontre scientifique GREMAQ-CORE-UAB, Barcelona, Spain, December 1998: How to deal with transaction data: a new topic in financial econometrics 18. Symposium on Microstructure and High Frequency Data, Paris, France, December 1998: Asymmetric ACD models: introducing price information in ACD models with a two state transition model 19. CORE Doctoral Seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, October 1998: How to deal with transaction data: a new topic in financial econometrics 20. Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM 98), Berlin, Germany, August 1998: The Logarithmic ACD model: an application to testing the Bayesian updating behavior of market makers 21. One-Day Workshop on Financial Econometrics, City University Business School, London, England, May 1998: Introducing price information in the ACD and Log-ACD models: an application to the Bayesian updating behavior of market makers 22. Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands, March 1998: The Logarithmic ACD model: an application to testing the Bayesian updating behavior of market makers 23. Econometrics and Finance, Brussels, Belgium, December 1997: The logarithmic ACD model: an application to market microstructure and NASDAQ 24. CORE Seminar in Econometrics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, October 1997: The logarithmic ACD model : an application to market microstructure and NASDAQ 25. Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM 97), Toulouse, France, August 1997: A Gibbs Sampling approach to cointegration French: mother tongue English: fluent Dutch: fair knowledge Spanish: fair knowledge German: good knowledge, fluent 5 years ago

6 COMPUTER EXPERIENCE Languages and database: C, Pascal, COBOL, FORTRAN, Access, DB2, SQL Software: TSP, GAUSS, EViews, SPSS, PCGive and Ox, Stata EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Sports (jogging, swimming, tennis,...), music, reading, computers,...