Publications

How to Fund Unemployment Insurance with Informality and False Claims: Evidence from Senegal, link | bib | x | data

Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 150, March 2025, 103699
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Kyle Herkenhoff, Abdoulaye Cisse, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, and Ahmadou A. Mbaye

Coverage: VoxDev, Brookings Africa Growth Initiative, World Bank

Redistribution with Performance Pay, link | bib | x

Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, vol. 1, num. 2, pp. 371-402, June 2023
Pawel Doligalski, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, and Nicolas Werquin
Coverage: Minneapolis Fed OIGI

Parallel Execution Fee Mechanisms, link | bib

Accepted in ACM FC 2025: Proceedings of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, WTSC

Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Coverage: a16z Crypto Research

Blockchain Price vs. Quantity Controls, link | bib

ACM FC 2024: Proceedings of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, February 2025, pp 303–313
Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Revision Requested

Flexible Retirement and Optimal Taxation, link | bib (major revision available upon request)

Reject & Resubmit at Quarterly Journal of Economics
Abdoulaye Ndiaye and Zhixiu Yu
Coverage: Chicago Fed letter

A Theory of International Boycotts, April 2025, link | bib | x

Revise & Resubmit at Journal of International Economics. [Revision Resubmitted]
Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Coverage: NPR Marketplace, La Tribune

Working Papers

Tax Productivity and Development: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Analysis, March 2025 (draft available upon request)

Radhika Goyal, Andres Jensen, David Lagakos, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Mispricing Narratives after Social Unrest, March 2025, link | bib

Bocar A. Ba, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Roman G. Rivera, and Alexander Whitefield

Bonus Question: How Does Flexible Incentive Pay Affect Wage Rigidity? , November 2024, link | bib | x

Meghana Gaur, John Grigsby, Jonathon Hazell, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Coverage: Marginal Revolution, NYU Stern Research Highlights, Atlanta Fed

Property Taxes and Housing Allocation Under Financial Constraints, October 2024, link | bib | x

Joshua Coven, Sebastian Golder, Arpit Gupta, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Coverage: Bloomberg, Minneapolis Fed, Homes.com, CoStar News, Arpitrage, The Roundup, NYU Stern Research Highlights, Slate

Why Bitcoin and Ethereum Differ in Transaction Costs: A Theory of Blockchain Fee Policies, November 2024, link | bib

Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Coverage: a16z Crypto Research

Selected Ongoing Research

Can Digitization Help Foster Synergies between Urban Service Delivery and Local Revenue Mobilization?

In the field. DigiFi grant. Location: Kanifing, The Gambia

Hamidou Jawara, Justine Knebelmann, Joseph Levine, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, and Victor Pouliquen

Credit and Conflict in Nigeria

Olalekan Bello, Simone Lenzu, Toni Oki, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Redistributing Transportation Costs

Data collection completed. Location: Ghana

Francis Annan and Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Breaking Barriers: How Policies, Norms, and Preferences Shape Women's Labor Force Participation

Abdoulaye Ndiaye and Zhixiu Yu

Policy Papers

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

Discussions

"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

Lecture Notes

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

Students

2024-2025: Abdoulaye Cissé, UC Berkeley ARE
Placement: On the 2024/2025 Job Market (letter writer)

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

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