Publications

by members of

Interdisciplinary Institute of Management (IIM)
London School of Economics (LSE)
University of London
London, United Kingdom

Working papers

2006

1. David De Meza & David C Webb, 2006. "Incentive Design under Loss Aversion," FMG Discussion Papers dp571, Financial Markets Group. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. David de Meza & Mariano Selvaggi, 2004. "Exclusive Contracts Foster Relationship-Specific Investment," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 04/105, Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK. [Downloadable!]
2. David De Meza & David C Webb, 2004. "Principal Agent Problems Under Loss Aversion: An Application to Executive Stock Options," FMG Discussion Papers dp478, Financial Markets Group. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. de Meza, David & Lockwood, Ben, 2004. "Too Much Investment : A Problem Of Coordination Failure," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 703, University of Warwick, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2003

1. David de Meza & Ben Lockwood, 2003. "Appropriability, Investment Incentives and the Property Rights Theory of the Firm," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 03/068, Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK. [Downloadable!]
2. de Meza, David, 2003. "Do Unprejudiced Societies Need Equal Opportunity Legislation?," Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 55, Royal Economic Society. [Downloadable!]
3. David de Meza & Marianno Selvaggi, 2003. "Please Hold me Up: Why Firms Grant Exclusive Dealing Contracts," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 03/066, Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK. [Downloadable!]
4. David De Meza & David C Webb, 2003. "The Near Impossibility of Credit Rationing," FMG Discussion Papers dp459, Financial Markets Group. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. David de Meza, 2002. "Do Unprejudiced Societies Need Equal Opportunity Legislation?," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 02/057, Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK. [Downloadable!]

2001

1. David C Webb & David De Meza, 2001. "Saving Eliminates Credit Rationing," FMG Discussion Papers dp391, Financial Markets Group. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. David De Meza & Giuseppe Coco, 2001. "In Defence of Usury Laws," FMG Discussion Papers dp369, Financial Markets Group. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2000

1. G. Reza Arabsheibani & David de Meza & John Maloney & Bernard Pearson, 2000. "And a Vision Appeared unto them of a Great Profit: Evidence of Self-Deception among the Self-Employed," Royal Holloway, University of London: Discussion Papers in Economics 99/9, Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London, revised Feb 2000. [Downloadable!]
2. De Meza, D. & Webb, D.C., 2000. "Advantageous Selection in Insurance Market," Discussion Papers 00/07, University of Exeter, School of Business and Economics.

1998

1. de Meza, D. & Lockwood, B., 1998. "When Will Capitalists Meet their Match? The Property Rights Theory of the Firm With Endogenous Timing," Discussion Papers 98/07, University of Exeter, School of Business and Economics.
2. De Meza, D. & Lockwood, B., 1998. "Outside Options, Ownership and Incentives Revisited," Discussion Papers 99/10, University of Exeter, School of Business and Economics.
3. Ben Lockwood & David de Meza, 1998. "The Property-Rights Theory of the Firm with Endogenous Timing of Asset Purchase," STICERD - Theoretical Economics Paper Series 364, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE. [Downloadable!]

1996

1. Itaya, J.I. & De Meza, D. & Myles, G.D., 1996. "Optimal Taxation and the Private provision of Public Goods," Discussion Papers 96/18, University of Exeter, School of Business and Economics.

1995

1. De Meza, D. & Southey, C., 1995. "The Borrower's Curse: Optimism, Finance and Enterpreneurship," Discussion Papers 95/02, University of Exeter, School of Business and Economics.
2. Black, J. & de Meza, D., 1995. "Too Few Risk Takers," Discussion Papers 95/04, University of Exeter, School of Business and Economics.
3. Black, J. & De Meza, D., 1995. "Gluts, Dearths and Market Efficiency," Discussion Papers 95/20, University of Exeter, School of Business and Economics.

Journal articles

2007

1. David de Meza & David C. Webb, 2007. "Incentive Design under Loss Aversion," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, vol. 5(1), pages 66-92, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. David De Meza & David C. Webb, 2006. "Credit Rationing: Something's Gotta Give," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 73(292), pages 563-578, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. Marta Coelho & David de Meza & Diane Reyniers, 2004. "Irrational Exuberance, Entrepreneurial Finance and Public Policy," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 11(4), pages 391-417, 08. [Downloadable!]
2. David de Meza & Ben Lockwood, 2004. "Spillovers, Investment Incentives and the Property Rights Theory of the Firm," Journal of Industrial Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 52(2), pages 229-253, 06. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Marta Coelho & David de Meza & Diane Reyniers, 2004. "Irrational Exuberance, Entrepreneurial Finance and Public Policy," Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Springer, vol. 11(4), pages 391-417, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Collie, David & de Meza, David, 2003. "Comparative advantage and the pursuit of strategic trade policy," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 81(2), pages 279-283, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. Itaya, Jun-ichi & de Meza, David & Myles, Gareth D, 2002. " Income Distribution, Taxation, and the Private Provision of Public Goods," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 4(3), pages 273-97. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. David de Meza, 2002. "Overlending?," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 112(477), pages F17-F31, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2001

1. de Meza, David & Webb, David C, 2001. "Advantageous Selection in Insurance Markets," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 32(2), pages 249-62, Summer.

2000

1. Arabsheibani, Gholamreza & de Meza, David & Maloney, John & Pearson, Bernard, 2000. "And a vision appeared unto them of a great profit: evidence of self-deception among the self-employed," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 67(1), pages 35-41, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David & Webb, David, 2000. "Does credit rationing imply insufficient lending?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 78(3), pages 215-234, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1999

1. de Meza, David & Southey, Clive, 1999. "Too Much Monitoring, Not Enough Performance Pay," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 109(454), pages C126-39, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David & Webb, David, 1999. "Wealth, Enterprise and Credit Policy," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 109(455), pages 153-63, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1998

1. David De Meza & Ben Lockwood, 1998. "Does Asset Ownership Always Motivate Managers? Outside Options And The Property Rights Theory Of The Firm," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 113(2), pages 361-386, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1997

1. de Meza, David, 1997. "Product Diversity under Monopoly: Two High Quality Results," Bulletin of Economic Research, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 49(2), pages 169-71, April.
2. Black, Jane & de Meza, David, 1997. "Everyone may benefit from subsidising entry to risky occupations," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(3), pages 409-424, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Itaya, Jun-ichi & de Meza, David & Myles, Gareth D., 1997. "In praise of inequality: public good provision and income distribution," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 57(3), pages 289-296, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1996

1. Black, Jane & de Meza, David & Jeffreys, David, 1996. "House Price, the Supply of Collateral and the Enterprise Economy," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 106(434), pages 60-75, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David & Southey, Clive, 1996. "The Borrower's Curse: Optimism, Finance and Entrepreneurship," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 106(435), pages 375-86, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1995

1. Ben Lockwood & David de Meza & Gareth Myles, 1995. "On the European Union VAT proposals: the superiority of origin over destination taxation," Fiscal Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies, vol. 16(1), pages 1-17, February.
2. Estrin, Saul & de Meza, David, 1995. "Unnatural monopoly," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 57(3), pages 471-488, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. de Meza, David & Maloney, John & Myles, Gareth D., 1995. "Price-reducing taxation," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 47(1), pages 77-81, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1994

1. Lockwood, Ben & Meza, David & de Myles, Gareth D, 1994. " The Equivalence between Destination and Non-reciprocal Restricted Origin Tax Regimes," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 96(3), pages 311-28.
2. Black, Jane & de Meza, David, 1994. "The nature of credit-market failure," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 46(3), pages 243-249, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1993

1. Black, Jane & Levi, Maurice D & de Meza, David, 1993. "Creating a Good Atmosphere: Minimum Participation for Tackling the 'Greenhouse Effect.'," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 60(239), pages 281-93, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1992

1. de Meza, David & Gould, J R, 1992. "The Social Efficiency of Private Decisions to Enforce Property Rights," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 100(3), pages 561-80, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Black, Jane & De Meza, David, 1992. "Systematic Price Differences between Successive Auctions Are No Anomaly," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 1(4), pages 607-28, Winter.

1990

1. Carbajo, Jose & de Meza, David & Seidmann, Daniel J, 1990. "A Strategic Motivation for Commodity Bundling," Journal of Industrial Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 38(3), pages 283-98, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David & Webb, David, 1990. "Risk, Adverse Selection and Capital Market Failure," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 100(399), pages 206-14, March.

1989

1. de Meza, David, 1989. "Not Even Strategic Trade Theory Justifies Export Subsidies," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 41(4), pages 720-36, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David & Natale, Piergiovanna, 1989. "Efficient Job Creation in LDCs Requires a Tax on Employment," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 99(398), pages 1112-22, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. La Manna, Manfredi & Macleod, Ross & de Meza, David, 1989. "The case for permissive patents," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 33(7), pages 1427-1443, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. De Meza, David & Webb, David C., 1989. "The role of interest rate taxes in credit markets with divisible projects and asymmetric information," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 33-44, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1988

1. David de Meza, 1988. "The Efficacy of Effluent Charges," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 21(1), pages 182-86, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David, 1988. "Package size and the suppression of variety," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 6(3), pages 363-371. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. De Meza, David & Webb, David C., 1988. "Credit market efficiency and tax policy in the presence of screening costs," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 1-22, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1987

1. de Meza, David, 1987. "The Optimum Tariff and Quota when the Terms of Trade Are Random," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 39(2), pages 412-17, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David, 1987. "The Migration Multiplier," Bulletin of Economic Research, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 39(3), pages 243-48, July.
3. de Meza, David & van der Ploeg, Frederick, 1987. "Production Flexibility as a Motive for Multinationality," Journal of Industrial Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 35(3), pages 343-51, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. De Meza, David & Gould, J R, 1987. "Free Access versus Private Property in a Resource: Income Distributions Compared," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 95(6), pages 1317-25, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. de Meza, David & Webb, David C, 1987. "Too Much Investment: A Problem of Asymmetric Information," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 102(2), pages 281-92, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1986

1. Tor Klette & David de Meza, 1986. "Is the Market Biased Against Risky R&D?," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 17(1), pages 133-139, Spring. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. David de Meza, 1986. "Safety in Conformity but Profits in Deviance," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 19(2), pages 261-69, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. David de Meza, 1986. "Export Subsidies and High Productivity: Cause or Effect?," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 19(2), pages 347-50, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. de Meza, David, 1986. "Immiserising invention : The private and social returns to R&D under oligopoly," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 4(4), pages 409-417, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Collie, David & De Meza, David, 1986. "Inadequacies of the strategic rationale of export subsidies," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 22(4), pages 369-373. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. de Meza, David, 1986. "The efficiency of liability law," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 6(1), pages 107-113, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1985

1. de Meza, David, 1985. "Effluent Charges and Environmental Damage: A Clarification," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 37(4), pages 700-02, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David, 1985. "A Stable Cournot-Nash Industry Need Not Be Quasi-competitive," Bulletin of Economic Research, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 37(2), pages 153-56, May.
3. Meza, David & Mohr, Ernst, 1985. "Price Deregulation and the Production of Depletable Resources," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 26(1), pages 213-18, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. de Meza, David & Gould, J. R., 1985. "Free access vs private ownership: A comparison," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 36(2), pages 387-391, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1984

1. de Meza, David, 1984. "The Fourth Commandment: Is it Pareto Efficient?," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 94(374), pages 379-83, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David, 1984. "Wage Uncertainty, Expected Utility, and Occupation Choice," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 25(3), pages 757-62, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. de Meza, David & Dickinson, Paul T., 1984. "Risk preferences and transaction costs," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 5(2), pages 223-236, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1983

1. De Meza, David, 1983. "Multinational Companies and National Welfare," Australian Economic Papers, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 22(41), pages 491-94, December.
2. de Meza, David, 1983. "The Transfer Problem in a Many-Country World: Is It Better to Give than Receive?," The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 51(3), pages 266-75, September.
3. de Meza, David, 1983. "A Growth Model for a Tenured-Labor-Managed Firm: Comment," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 98(3), pages 539-42, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. de Meza, David, 1983. "Health insurance and the demand for medical care," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 2(1), pages 47-54, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1982

1. de Meza, David, 1982. "Generalized Oligopoly Derived Demand with an Application to Tax Induced Entry," Bulletin of Economic Research, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 34(1), pages 1-16, May.
2. de Meza, David & Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von, 1982. "Monopoly, product diversity and welfare," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 12(3), pages 313-324, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1981

1. de Meza, David, 1981. ""Perverse" Long-run and Short-run Factor Demand Curves," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 48(191), pages 299-303, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David, 1981. "World wage distribution," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 7(2), pages 195-200. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1980

1. de Meza, David & von Ungern Sternberg, Thomas, 1980. "Market Structure and Optimal Stockholding: A Note," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 88(2), pages 395-99, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David, 1980. "LDC policy towards multinational companies : A Case for Payroll Taxes and Capital Subsidies," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 5(4), pages 367-370. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1979

1. de Meza, David, 1979. "Commercial Policy Towards Multinational Monopolies-Reservations on Katrak," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 31(2), pages 334-37, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. de Meza, David, 1979. "A theory of multinationals' choice of technique and locational decisions," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 2(1), pages 67-71. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1978

1. de Meza, David, 1978. "Invention and the Pursuit of Antitrust," Australian Economic Papers, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 17(30), pages 103-09, June.
2. De Meza, David & Von Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas, 1978. "Uncertainty, extraction costs and the order of resource depletion," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 1(3), pages 265-269. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1977

1. de Meza, David E, 1977. "Multinational Corporations in LDCs: A Comment," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 39(3), pages 237-41, August.

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