Joel Flynn will join the Economics Department at Yale as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2024 after completing a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Cowles Foundation at Yale. His research is in macroeconomics and economic theory, with an emphasis on behavioral macroeconomics and mechanism design. He has recently studied how viral economic narratives may cause macroeconomic boom-bust cycles and how cyclical attention to the macroeconomy generates macroeconomic volatility. His mechanism design research has focused on the optimal design of two-sided matching markets and optimal contracting when contracts are incomplete. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies. He received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT and his B.A. in economics from the University of Cambridge (King’s College).
Website: joelflynn.com