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Finance Papers
by Luiz Gidrão, CFA, CAIA
Finance Papers is a podcast for students, professionals, and curious minds who want to truly understand finance. Each episode turns an influential finance paper into a clear, friendly and practical conversation, making complex ideas accessible without dumbing them down. The podcast is hosted by AI presenters, but the project was conceptualized and curated by Luiz Gidrão, CFA, CAIA, founder of stock.cash and goa.capital – firms focused on structured credit, venture debt, stock options financing, startup valuation (including 409A) and financial reporting under IFRS 2. Rather than offering shallow summaries, the AI hosts walk through each paper section by section: context, research questions, model, methodology, results, limitations and real‑world implications. The goal is to democratize access to financial knowledge, using rigorous reasoning with a friendly tone and
Episodes
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Ep. 7: Kahneman & Tversky · 1979 — Prospect Theory (Behavioral Finance)
In 1979, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky published a 29-page paper in Econometrica that took the standard model of rational choice apart using nothing but a questionnaire: "Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk." Six episodes on how markets price risk, all of them resting on one...
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Ep. 6: Jensen & Meckling · 1976 — Theory of the Firm (Agency Costs)
In 1976, Michael Jensen and William Meckling published a 56-page paper that gave corporate governance both its foundation and its vocabulary: "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure." After five episodes on how markets price assets from the outside, Episode…
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Ep. 5: Eugene Fama · 1970 — Efficient Capital Markets (EMH)
In 1970, Eugene Fama published a 35-page paper that transformed modern finance from a collection of elegant theoretical models into a rigorous empirical science: "Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Theory and Empirical Work." After four episodes building the foundational edifice of modern...
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Ep. 4: Black & Scholes 1973 — The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities
In 1973, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes solved a problem that had defeated finance for seventy years: how to price an option without knowing where the stock is headed. Their formula didn't just settle an academic debate — it launched a derivatives market now worth trillions and quietly redefined...
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Ep. 3: Modigliani & Miller · 1958 — Capital Structure Irrelevance
In 1958, two young economists published a paper that enraged corporate finance professors and quietly rewired the foundations of the field. Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller’s “The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment” claimed that, in a perfect market, a firm’s…
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Ep. 1: Harry Markowitz · 1952 — Portfolio Selection
In 1952, a 25-year-old graduate student published a 14-page paper that changed Wall Street forever. Harry Markowitz’s "Portfolio Selection" laid the mathematical foundation for modern quantitative finance and earned him a Nobel Prize. In this inaugural episode of Finance Papers, we strip away the...
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Ep. 2: William Sharpe · 1964 — Capital Asset Prices (CAPM)
Following up on Harry Markowitz’s foundational concept of diversification, William Sharpe’s 1964 paper took Modern Portfolio Theory to the next level. This seminal work is the practical key that unlocked MPT for the investing world, introducing the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Finance Papers is a podcast for students, professionals, and curious minds who want to truly understand finance. Each episode turns an influential finance paper into a clear, friendly and practical conversation, making complex ideas accessible without dumbing them down.
The podcast is hosted by AI presenters, but the project was conceptualized and curated by Luiz Gidrão, CFA, CAIA, founder of stock.cash and goa.capital – firms focused on structured credit, venture debt, stock options financing, startup valuation (including 409A) and financial reporting under IFRS 2.
Rather than offering shallow summaries, the AI hosts walk through each paper section by section: context, research questions, model, methodology, results, limitations and real‑world implications. The goal is to democratize access to financial knowledge, using rigorous reasoning with a friendly tone and
HOSTED BY
Luiz Gidrão, CFA, CAIA
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