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Overview

David de Meza is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Business, Management and Accounting.

The scientist's work covers a range of subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. The main topics addressed in their research reflect this interdisciplinary approach, with notable emphasis on Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, Housing Market and Economics, Economic Theories and Models, Optimism, Hope, and Well-being, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research, and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics.

David de Meza has published in various academic venues. Frequent publication sources include Economics Letters, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Economica, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Economic Theory.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Neither an Optimist Nor a Pessimist Be: Mistaken Expectations Lower Well-Being" (2020) in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "Insuring Replaceable Possessions" (2022) in Economica
  • "Too much trade: The hidden problem of adverse selection" (2021) in Journal of Public Economics
  • "Is the second-cheapest wine a rip-off?" (2021) in Economics Letters
  • "Too much waste, not enough rationing: The failure of stochastic, competitive markets" (2020) in Journal of Economic Theory

De Meza has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Francesco Reito (3 joint publications)
  • Diane Reyniers (2 joint publications)
  • Christopher Dawson (1 joint publication)
  • Vikram Pathania (1 joint publication)

The research topics indicate a blend of quantitative economic modeling and behavioral insights, focusing on aspects such as market behaviors, pricing strategies, psychological influences on economics, and well-being metrics. This includes analysis of consumer behavior in housing markets and decision-making processes influenced by optimism and psychological factors.

Best Publications

  • Too Much Investment: A Problem of Asymmetric Information

    David de Meza;David C. Webb

  • The Borrower's Curse: Optimism, Finance and Entrepreneurship

    David de Meza;Clive Southey

  • Advantageous Selection in Insurance Markets

    David de Meza;David C. Webb

  • Economic Behaviour and Institutions.

    David de Meza;Thrainn Eggertsson

  • House prices, the supply of collateral and the enterprise economy

    Jane Black;David de Meza;David Jeffreys

  • A strategic motivation for commodity bundling

    David de Meza;J. Carabjo;D. Seidmann

  • Does Asset Ownership Always Motivate Managers? Outside Options and the Property Rights Theory of the Firm

    David de Meza;Ben Lockwood

  • Financial capability: a behavioural economics perspective

    David de Meza;Bernd Irlenbusch;Diane Reyniers

  • And a vision appeared unto them of a great profit: evidence of self-deception among the self-employed

    Gholamreza Arabsheibani;David de Meza;David de Meza;John Maloney;Bernard Pearson

  • The social efficiency of private decisions to enforce property rights

    David de Meza;J. R. Gould

  • Systematic Price Differences Between Successive Auctionsare no Anomaly

    Jane Black;David de Meza

  • Creating a Good Atmosphere: Minimum Participation for Tackling the 'Greenhouse Effect'

    David de Meza;Julia Black;M. Levi

  • Production flexibility as a motive for multinationality

    David de Meza;F. van der Ploeg

  • Wealth, Enterprise and Credit Policy

    David de Meza;David C. Webb

  • Does credit rationing imply insufficient lending

    David de Meza;David de Meza;David C. Webb

  • Overlending?

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  • Export subsidies and high productivity: cause or effect?

    David de Meza

  • In praise of inequality: public good provision and income distribution

    Jun-ichi Itaya;David de Meza;Gareth D. Myles

  • INCENTIVE DESIGN UNDER LOSS AVERSION

    David de Meza;David C. Webb

  • Health insurance and the demand for medical care

    David de Meza

  • When are origin and destination regimes equivalent

    Ben Lockwood;David De Meza;Gareth D. Myles

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Lockwood
Ben Lockwood University of Warwick
Andrew Henley
Andrew Henley Cardiff University
Satoshi Kanazawa
Satoshi Kanazawa London School of Economics and Political Science
Julia Black
Julia Black London School of Economics and Political Science
Nancy L. Segal
Nancy L. Segal California State University, Fullerton

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