Joel Flynn

Joel Flynn joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of Economics following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. His research is in macroeconomics and economic theory with an emphasis on behavioral macroeconomics and mechanism design. He has recently studied how economic uncertainty affects the transmission of monetary policy, how to optimally target fiscal stimulus, how viral economic narratives 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 PhD in economics from MIT and his BA in economics from the University of Cambridge (King’s College).