Academic papers provide an opportunity to gain concise knowledge quickly. Some renowned books are, in fact, based on celebrated academic articles, and reading these original articles can often be more advantageous than reading the full books. Below you will find a collection of noteworthy papers - both famous and those that deserve to be - that I have found particularly compelling or influential.

Academic papers

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Blockchain technology

• Buterin Vitalik (2013). “A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform”. White paper.
• Nakamoto, Satoshi (2008). “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. White paper.
• Wood, Gavin (2014). “Ethereum: A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger”. Yellow paper.

Economics

• Shiller, Robert J. (2017). “Narrative Economics”. American Economic Review.

Finance

Market microstructure:

• Hasbrouck, Joel (1991a). “Measuring the Information Content of Stock Trades”. The Journal of Finance.
• Hasbrouck, Joel (1991b). “The summary informativeness of stock trades: An econometric analysis”. The Review of Financial Studies.
• Kyle, Albert S. and Anna A. Obizhaeva (2016). “Market Microstructure Invariance: Empirical Hypotheses”. Econometrica.