Peter A. Coles
There are 2 articles for this faculty member.
About Faculty in this Article:
Peter Coles is an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets unit at Harvard Business School.
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
| Published: | June 8, 2011 |
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| Paper Release Date: | October 2010 (revised) |
| Feature: | Lessons from the Classroom |
| Forum: | open for comment; 7 Comments posted |
As cap and trade becomes an increasingly popular mechanism for governments to cut corporate pollution, students at Harvard Business School use a simulation to learn how it works. An interview with professor Peter Coles.
Published in 2010
The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective
| Authors: | Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried |
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| Published: | May 19, 2010 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
How should the most appropriate employers and job candidates find each other? Newly minted economists typically send applications to an average of 80 potential employers, and as a result, many employers receive hundreds of applications. It is extremely time-consuming to sort through all the applications, and as the process unfolds, there is a risk of coordination failure, in which employers and candidates who would be well-suited do not manage to create a match. In this paper, HBS professors Peter A. Coles and Alvin E. Roth and colleagues provide an overview of the market for new PhD economists and describe new mechanisms to improve the matching process. They conclude by discussing the emergence of platforms for transmitting job market information, and other design issues that may arise in the market for new economists.
