I am a macroeconomist and economic theorist interested in business cycles and mechanism design. I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. I graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in Economics in June 2023 and the University of Cambridge with a B.A. in Economics in 2017.
In AY26/27, I am on sabbatical at Stanford (Fall quarter) and Harvard (Spring semester).
Email: joel.flynn@yale.edu
Working Papers
Adaptive Priority Mechanisms (with Oguzhan Celebi)
Revise and Resubmit, Management Science
Attention Cycles (with Karthik Sastry)
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Contagious Business Cycles (with Karthik Sastry)
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
Pricing and Production Without the Invisible Hand (with Georgios Nikolakoudis and Karthik Sastry)
Revise and Resubmit, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Quick-Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption and Savings Behavior (with Peter Andre, Georgios Nikolakoudis, and Karthik Sastry)
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review
What Can Measured Beliefs Tell Us About Monetary Non-Neutrality? (with Hassan Afrouzi and Choongryul Yang)
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review
Forecasting with Uncertain Persistence (with Maksim Meinert and Karthik Sastry)
Foreign Political Risk and Technological Change (with Antoine Levy, Jacob Moscona, and Mai Wo)
Organizational Targets in General Equilibrium (with Georgios Nikolakoudis and Karthik Sastry)
The Robust Properties of Economies with Endogenous Production Networks (with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Roberto Corrao, and Giacomo Lanzani)
Accepted and Published Papers
Fiscal Policy in a Networked Economy (with John Becko and Christina Patterson)
Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Contractibility Design (with Roberto Corrao and Karthik Sastry) [Online Appendix] [Publisher’s Version]
Econometrica, Forthcoming
Dynamic Unraveling [Online Appendix] [Publisher’s Version]
Management Science, Volume 72, Issue 10, October 2026
A Theory of Supply Function Choice and Aggregate Supply (with Georgios Nikolakoudis and Karthik Sastry) [Online Appendix] [Publisher’s Version]
American Economic Review, Volume 116, Issue 2, February 2026
Strategic Mistakes (with Karthik Sastry) [Online Appendix] [Publisher’s Version]
Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 212, September 2023
Nonlinear Pricing with Under-Utilization: A Theory of Multi-Part Tariffs (with Roberto Corrao and Karthik Sastry) [Online Appendix] [Publisher’s Version]
American Economic Review, Volume 113, Issue 3, March 2023
Robust Comparative Statics for the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution (with Lawrence Schmidt and Alexis Akira Toda) [Publisher’s Version]
Theoretical Economics, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2023
Priority Design in Centralized Matching Markets (with Oguzhan Celebi) [Online Appendix] [Publisher’s Version]
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 89, Issue 3, May 2022