Janet Hua Jiang

Senior Analyst

Janet Jiang is a Senior Analyst in the Research Team in the Funds Management and Banking Department. Her current research interests include optimal loss-sharing rules for the large value payment system, the effect of new means of payment on central bank policies, and experimental studies of bank runs, asset bubbles, multiple currencies and competing means of payment. She has also conducted research on how inflation affects banking crises and trading patterns. Janet obtained her PhD in Economics from Simon Fraser University.

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Janet Hua Jiang

Senior Analyst
Funds Management and Banking
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Bank of Canada
234 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON, K1A 0G9

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Competing Currencies in the Laboratory

Staff Working Paper 2017-53 Janet Hua Jiang, Cathy Zhang
We investigate competition between two intrinsically worthless currencies as a result of decentralized interactions between human subjects. We design a laboratory experiment based on a simple two-country, two-currency search model to study factors that affect circulation patterns and equilibrium selection.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Central bank research, Digital Currencies JEL Code(s): C, C9, C92, D, D8, D83, E, E4, E40

Adoption of a New Payment Method: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Staff Working Paper 2017-28 Jasmina Arifovic, John Duffy, Janet Hua Jiang
We model the introduction of a new payment method, e.g., e-money, that competes with an existing payment method, e.g., cash. The new payment method involves relatively lower per-transaction costs for both buyers and sellers, but sellers must pay a fixed fee to accept the new payment method.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Central bank research, Digital Currencies JEL Code(s): C, C3, C35, C8, C83, C9, C92, E, E4, E41

Understanding the Cash Demand Puzzle

Staff Working Paper 2014-22 Janet Hua Jiang, Enchuan Shao
We develop a model to explain a puzzling trend in cash demand in recent years: the value of bank notes in circulation as a percentage of GDP has remained stable despite decreasing cash usage at points of sale owing to competition from alternative means of payment such as credit cards.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Bank notes, Credit and credit aggregates, Digital Currencies JEL Code(s): E, E4, E41, E5, E51

Interest on Cash, Fundamental Value Process and Bubble Formation on Experimental Asset Markets

Staff Working Paper 2014-18 Giovanni Giusti, Janet Hua Jiang, Yiping Xu
We study the formation of price bubbles on experimental asset markets where cash earns interest. There are two main conclusions.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Asset Pricing, Financial markets, Financial stability JEL Code(s): C, C9, C90, G, G1, G10

Do Sunspots Matter? Evidence from an Experimental Study of Bank Runs

Staff Working Paper 2014-12 Jasmina Arifovic, Janet Hua Jiang
A "sunspot" is a variable that has no direct impact on the economy’s fundamental condition, such as preferences, endowments or technologies, but may nonetheless affect economic outcomes through the expectations channel as a coordination device. This paper investigates how people react to sunspots in the context of a bank-run game in a controlled laboratory environment.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Financial stability JEL Code(s): C, C9, C91, C92, D, D8, D80, E, E5, E58, G, G2, G20

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Journal Articles

  • “One or Two Monies?”
    (with Mei Dong), 2010, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol.57, p.439-450.
  • “Banking Crises in Monetary Economies”,
    2008, the Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 41, p.80-104.
  • “Experimental Evidence of Bank Runs as Pure Coordination Failures”,
    (with Jasmina Arifovic and Yiping Xu), 2012, Revised and Resubmitted to Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
  • “Money and Price Posting under Private Information”,
    (with Mei Dong), Journal of Economic Theory (2014) 150, 740-777.

Other Research

  • Eliminating Laboratory Asset Bubbles by Paying Interest on Cash,
    (with Giovanni Giusti and Yiping Xu)
  • Mechanism Design and Competitive Markets in a Quasi-linear Environment with Limited Commitment
  • Information, Prices and Ex-ante Investment,
    (with Mei Dong)

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Education

  • PhD Simon Fraser University, 2007

Research Interests

  • Money and banking
  • Experimental macroeconomics
  • Experimental finance

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