Bio

Jiaqi Li is a Senior Economist in the Banking and Payments Department (BAP). She is a macroeconomist with research interests in banking, financial frictions and monetary transmission. Jiaqi obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge.


Staff research

How Costly Are Cross-Border Payments for Firms?

Staff analytical paper 2026-49 Jiaqi Li
Using proprietary FXC Intelligence data on quoted prices for Canadian business-to-business cross-border payments, this note finds that banks charge firms around 2–3.5% of transaction value. Prices vary considerably across banks for the same corridor, transaction amount, and year.

Central Bank Digital Currency and Banking Choices

Staff working paper 2024-4 Jiaqi Li, Andrew Usher, Yu Zhu
To what extent does a central bank digital currency (CBDC) compete with bank deposits? To answer this question, we develop and estimate a structural model where each household chooses which financial institution to deposit their digital money with.

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