The AI Agent Revolution in Crypto: Looming Risks and Regulatory Opportunities
Competition Policy International, January 2025
Kevin M.K. Fodouop, Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Financing unemployment insurance in high-informality economies: A survey analysis of Senegal
Brookings Policy Brief, Global Economy & Development, 2023
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Kyle Herkenhoff, Abdoulaye Cisse, and Alessandro Dell’Acqua

Reforming Social Security to Save Social Security
Chicago Fed Letter, 2019 No 419
Abdoulaye Ndiaye and Lisa Camner McKay

Gestion Optimale des Réserves de Change dans l'UEMOA, 2016
Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Assessing the Inclusiveness of Growth in Africa: Evidence from Senegal, Cameroon, and Tanzania
UNU WIDER, 2014/120
Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Arthur Bauer, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Clara Champagne, Tite Yokossi, Nathalie Ferrière, Hédi Brahimi, and Jeanne Avril

"Taxing Water Usage in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico" by Alejandro Estefan at National Tax Association Meetings 2023

"Expansion of Piped Water and Sewer Networks: The Effects of Regulation" by Bruna Morais Guidetti and Carolina Tojal Ramos dos Santos at National Tax Association Meetings 2023

"Larger transfers financed with more progressive taxes? On the optimal design of taxes and transfers" by Ferriere, Grubener,  Navarro, and Vardishvili at National Tax Association Meetings 2021

"Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Shocks" by Sebastian Dyrda and Marcelo Pedroni at National Tax Association Meetings 2021

"The Taxation of Couples" by Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl, and Daniel Weishaar at National Tax Association Meetings 2020

"Politics and Income Taxes: Progress and Progressivity" by Marcus Berliant and Pierre Boyer at National Tax Association Meetings 2020

"Capitalist Human Capital" by Vincenzo Quadrini, Qi Sun, and Yicheng Wang at Tsinghua Workshop in Macroeconomics 2019

``Politically feasible reforms of non-linear tax systems" by Felix J. Bierbrauer and Pierre C. Boyer at Fourth Taxation Theory Conference 2018

``Income Taxation, Firing Costs and Insurance within Firm'' by Pawel Doligalski at National Tax Association Meetings 2017 

``Inverse December Fever'' by Zareh Asatryan, Andreas Peichl, Thomas Schwab, and Johannes Voget at National Tax Association Meetings 2017 

PhD Macro Public Finance

Syllabus

Part I - Classical Public Finance Revisited

Lecture 0: Introduction to Macro Public Finance Slides, Lecture Notes

Lecture 1: Commodity Taxation and Productive Efficiency

Lecture 2: Wealth and Capital Taxation in Ramsey Model: Chamley-Judd Slides

Lecture 3: Wealth and Capital Taxation Revisited: Straub-Werning Slides

Lecture 4: Nonlinear Income Taxation Slides, Deterministic Optimal Control Notes

Part II - Dynamic Income Taxation

Lecture 5: Dynamic Taxation I: Capital Taxation Slides

Lecture 6: Dynamic Taxation II: Labor Income Taxation Slides

Lecture 7: Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Wages
Slides:Optimal Taxation and Human Capital Policies, S. Stantcheva
Slides: Redistribution and Performance Pay, P. Doligalski, A. Ndiaye, N. Werquin

Lecture 8: Disability Insurance Slides

Part III - Contemporary Topics in Macro PF

Lecture 9: Taxation and Aggregate Shocks Slides

Lecture 10: Efficiency of Wealth vs Capital Gains Taxation
Slides:  Use it or Lose it: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation, Guvenen et al.
Slides:  Efficient Redistribution, Boar and Midrigan

Lecture 11: Gender

Lecture 12: Discrimination and Racial Inequality Slides

Macro Development for Policymakers

Syllabus

Lecture1: Intro to Macro Development

Lecture 2: Growth, Infrastructure, and Technological Change

Lecture 3: Productivity and Human Capital in Developing Countries

Lecture 4: Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Services: Key Concepts of Structural Transformation

2024-2025: Abdoulaye Cissé, UC Berkeley ARE
Placement: Princeton Postdoc, World Bank

2023-2024:  Alessandro Dell'Acqua, NYU Stern Predoc
Placement: PhD in Economics, UC Berkeley

2022-2023: Yifan Shi, NYU Research Assistant
Placement: Predoc in Finance, Kellogg

2018-2019: Richard De Thorpe, Chicago Fed Predoc
Placement: PhD in Economics, Princeton