Jiancai Pi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3713174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jiancai Pi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jiancai |
| FAMILY NAME | Pi |
| SIGNATURE | PI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Economics, School of Business Nanjing University Nanjing China |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4327-8355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Does Digitalization Improve Product Quality? Evidence from China
The role of digitalization is becoming increasingly important. By developing Python codes, we have obtained annual report data from Chinese A-share listed companies, enabling us to quantify their product quality. Empirically, we have discovered a significant U-shaped relationship between the extent of digitalization of enterprises and the quality of their products. Furthermore, mechanism analysis reveals that digitalization effectively enhances t…
Illegal Immigration Control and Wage Inequality
This article investigates the effects of government regulation over illegal immigration on wage inequality through the general equilibrium approach. In the basic model of the short‐term analysis, increased control over illegal immigration will affect the skilled wage rate depending on the elasticity of substitution between capital and illegal immigrants in the urban informal sector, and will influence the domestic unskilled wage rate through both…
Buyer Power and Comparative Advantage
This paper builds a two‐country oligopolistic competition model to capture the effects of buyer power on international trade. The lack of buyer power of home retailers does harm to the home country by decreasing the extensive margin at home. Thus, buyer power can be a part of the comparative advantage of a country. There are three sources of buyer power in our models. An increment of bargaining power of retailers facilitates specialisation toward…
A DSGE Analysis of Asymmetric Monetary Policy Transmission in China
This paper analyzes the asymmetric transmission of monetary policy between state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) and privately owned enterprises (POEs) in China by developing a DSGE model that incorporates both financial constraints and government intervention. We find that a positive money supply shock benefits SOEs more than POEs. Notably, even when financial constraints faced by SOEs and POEs are the same, a positive money supply shock can still prod…
Financial globalization and wage inequality
This paper analyzes how financial globalization affects skilled‐unskilled wage inequality. We treat financial globalization as more regions being integrated into the global financial market. We find that a higher degree of financial globalization will decrease skilled‐unskilled wage inequality if it induces a small increase in the capital tax rate. However, a higher degree of financial globalization will increase skilled‐unskilled wage inequality…
Urban bias and multinational firms
This paper explores how urban bias in the host country affects the movement of multinational capital owned by multinational firms in the source country and the production in the invested sector. If the degree of urban bias in one of the urban sectors in the host country increases, then the amount of multinational capital flowing into the host country will increase, but the production in the invested sector will have different changes in different…
Organized crime and wage inequality
This paper stresses the role of industrial organization of crime, and explores how organized crime affects wage inequality. We find that, when only unskilled workers (or both skilled and unskilled workers) engage in organized crime, an increase in the number of criminal groups will increase wage inequality if (1) the skilled sector is more capital intensive than the unskilled sector, and (2) the price elasticity of demand for the skilled product …
Horizontal Mergers and Wage Inequality
This paper incorporates horizontal mergers into the general-equilibrium framework embedded with game theory and separately analyzes how horizontal mergers in the skilled sector and the unskilled sector influence the skilled-unskilled wage inequality. In an economy with full employment, a horizontal merger in the skilled sector will certainly reduce the wage gap. In an economy with unem-ployment, a horizontal merger in the skilled sector will cond…
A New Solution to the Puzzle of Fifty-Fifty Split in Sharecropping
This paper mainly discusses the puzzle of fifty-fifty split in sharecropping through an improved principal-agent moral hazard framework. Greatly different from the existing literature, this paper finds a new solution to the puzzle of fifty-fifty split in sharecropping. Equal division between the landowner and the tenant regardless of the land’s fertility is incentive compatible, and at the same time the landowner could lease out more fertile land…
Fairness and Incentives in Relation-Based Societies
This paper mainly discusses the effects of fairness on incentives in relation-based societies (e.g., China) through the principal-agent framework.Our analyses give the conditions under which the consideration of fairness will decrease or increase the agent's efficiency wage.At the same time, our analyses give the conditions under which taking into account fairness will make the principal's constraint to incentivize the agent easier or harder to b…
Financial globalization and wage inequality
This paper analyzes how financial globalization affects skilled‐unskilled wage inequality. We treat financial globalization as more regions being integrated into the global financial market. We find that a higher degree of financial globalization will decrease skilled‐unskilled wage inequality if it induces a small increase in the capital tax rate. However, a higher degree of financial globalization will increase skilled‐unskilled wage inequality…
Fairness and Incentives in Relation-Based Societies
This paper mainly discusses the effects of fairness on incentives in relation-based societies (e.g., China) through the principal-agent framework.Our analyses give the conditions under which the consideration of fairness will decrease or increase the agent's efficiency wage.At the same time, our analyses give the conditions under which taking into account fairness will make the principal's constraint to incentivize the agent easier or harder to b…
A New Solution to the Puzzle of Fifty-Fifty Split in Sharecropping
This paper mainly discusses the puzzle of fifty-fifty split in sharecropping through an improved principal-agent moral hazard framework. Greatly different from the existing literature, this paper finds a new solution to the puzzle of fifty-fifty split in sharecropping. Equal division between the landowner and the tenant regardless of the land’s fertility is incentive compatible, and at the same time the landowner could lease out more fertile land…
Horizontal Mergers and Wage Inequality
This paper incorporates horizontal mergers into the general-equilibrium framework embedded with game theory and separately analyzes how horizontal mergers in the skilled sector and the unskilled sector influence the skilled-unskilled wage inequality. In an economy with full employment, a horizontal merger in the skilled sector will certainly reduce the wage gap. In an economy with unem-ployment, a horizontal merger in the skilled sector will cond…
Organized crime and wage inequality
This paper stresses the role of industrial organization of crime, and explores how organized crime affects wage inequality. We find that, when only unskilled workers (or both skilled and unskilled workers) engage in organized crime, an increase in the number of criminal groups will increase wage inequality if (1) the skilled sector is more capital intensive than the unskilled sector, and (2) the price elasticity of demand for the skilled product …
Financial globalization and wage inequality
This paper analyzes how financial globalization affects skilled‐unskilled wage inequality. We treat financial globalization as more regions being integrated into the global financial market. We find that a higher degree of financial globalization will decrease skilled‐unskilled wage inequality if it induces a small increase in the capital tax rate. However, a higher degree of financial globalization will increase skilled‐unskilled wage inequality…
Urban bias and multinational firms
This paper explores how urban bias in the host country affects the movement of multinational capital owned by multinational firms in the source country and the production in the invested sector. If the degree of urban bias in one of the urban sectors in the host country increases, then the amount of multinational capital flowing into the host country will increase, but the production in the invested sector will have different changes in different…
Buyer Power and Comparative Advantage
This paper builds a two‐country oligopolistic competition model to capture the effects of buyer power on international trade. The lack of buyer power of home retailers does harm to the home country by decreasing the extensive margin at home. Thus, buyer power can be a part of the comparative advantage of a country. There are three sources of buyer power in our models. An increment of bargaining power of retailers facilitates specialisation toward…
A DSGE Analysis of Asymmetric Monetary Policy Transmission in China
This paper analyzes the asymmetric transmission of monetary policy between state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) and privately owned enterprises (POEs) in China by developing a DSGE model that incorporates both financial constraints and government intervention. We find that a positive money supply shock benefits SOEs more than POEs. Notably, even when financial constraints faced by SOEs and POEs are the same, a positive money supply shock can still prod…
Does Digitalization Improve Product Quality? Evidence from China
The role of digitalization is becoming increasingly important. By developing Python codes, we have obtained annual report data from Chinese A-share listed companies, enabling us to quantify their product quality. Empirically, we have discovered a significant U-shaped relationship between the extent of digitalization of enterprises and the quality of their products. Furthermore, mechanism analysis reveals that digitalization effectively enhances t…
Illegal Immigration Control and Wage Inequality
This article investigates the effects of government regulation over illegal immigration on wage inequality through the general equilibrium approach. In the basic model of the short‐term analysis, increased control over illegal immigration will affect the skilled wage rate depending on the elasticity of substitution between capital and illegal immigrants in the urban informal sector, and will influence the domestic unskilled wage rate through both…
Economics (8 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Microeconomics (5 works) · Inequality (4 works) · Wage (4 works) · Wage Inequality (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Capital (architecture (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Global trade and economics (3 works)