David de Meza

David de Meza is the Eric Sosnow Professor of Management at the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research focuses on property rights theory of the firm, entrepreneurial optimism, and financial/insurance market dynamics. He has contributed extensively to understanding adverse selection, overconfidence effects, and behavioral economic phenomena.

Key research areas include:

• Property rights and organizational incentives
• Optimism's role in entrepreneurship and economic decisions
• Risk assessment in insurance markets
• Behavioral biases like loss aversion and overconfidence

Recent work explores topics such as:

• Market failures caused by adverse selection
• Psychological impacts of mistaken expectations
• Price dispersion under macroeconomic shocks
• Product pricing strategies in consumer markets

No awards are explicitly listed in the provided materials. His publications span prestigious journals including Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Economic Journal.