Peter Coles

Peter Coles

Head Economist for Policy

Airbnb

PhD: Stanford, 2009

Market Design Matching Markets Sharing Economy

About

Peter Coles leads economics at Airbnb, applying market design to the sharing economy. Previously Head Economist at eBay and professor at Harvard Business School. He trained under Nobel laureate Alvin Roth and designed the AEA job market signaling mechanism.

Key Work

2013

Preference Signaling in Matching Markets

AEJ: Microeconomics

Design of AEA job market signaling

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2014

Optimal Truncation in Matching Markets

Games and Economic Behavior

Strategic behavior in matching

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