Teachers of BNUBS Published Two Academic Papers in Management World

Wan Haiyuan, Li Fan, Li Qiang, Shen Meng, He Weidong (Corresponding Author): Constructing an Employment Price Index to Assist Macro Decision - Making: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Management World, No. 4, 2025.

Abstract: This paper uses big data from the recruitment platform with the full sample, and constructs a forward - looking employment price index based on the search - matching theory to timely reflect the overall economic situation and better serve macro - decision - making. For specific jobs under certain conditions, after enterprises offer quotes first, job seekers then apply for the corresponding positions and provide their asking prices. After multi - layer and multi - dimensional supply - demand matching, the equilibrium wage growth rate is estimated, and the employment price index at the job level is obtained. By testing with the transaction wages on the platform, the ratio of job vacancies to job seekers on the platform, survey wages, and the surveyed unemployment rate, it is found that the performance of the index is very robust. Using the extremely small job - level data after supply - demand matching as the underlying data, it is found that the new index can timely reflect changes in market equilibrium wages, provide a reference for judging the overall price trend, and has the function of indicating the unemployment rate and the macro - economy. The employment price index combines employment quantity and wage price, and can more sensitively capture the phenomenon of the separation of quantity and price. The new index has clear macro - guidance, smooth meso - level transmission, and is tangible at the micro - level. It can reflect market expectations in advance, indicate changes in the economic situation prospectively, help bridge the temperature difference between the macro - economy and micro - level feelings, and can be used as an auxiliary indicator for macro - decision - making.

Author Biographies:

Wan Haiyuan is a professor at BNUBS. He is also a researcher at the Institute of Social Development, National Development and Reform Commission, and at the China Institute for Income Distribution, Beijing Normal University, as well as a researcher at the GATE Institute, French National Center for Scientific Research. He is the chief expert of a major project of the National Social Science Foundation of China. In recent years, he has published more than ten works such as Institutional and Policy Measures for Promoting Common Prosperity, and has published many high - level papers in Economic Research Journal and Management World. He has also won important awards such as the Youth Achievement Award of the Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research of Institutions of Higher Learning (Humanities and Social Sciences) and the Outstanding Achievements Award of Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences.

Fan Haichao, Wu Caiyun, Dai Mi (Corresponding Author): The Impact of Tariff Fluctuations on Domestic Market Prices, Management World, No. 4, 2025.

Abstract: Tariff changes not only affect China's foreign trade but also have an impact on China's domestic market. Based on the product price monitoring data of China's domestic market, tariff data, and import and export customs data, this paper studies the impact of changes in import and export tariffs on the product prices in China's domestic market. The results show that the additional import tariffs imposed by the United States on China have reduced the product prices in China's domestic market. This is mainly because Chinese products face obstacles in exporting to the United States and similar products are not fully redirected to third - party countries, so enterprises have shifted their sales focus more to the domestic market, leading to intensified competition in the domestic market. In contrast, the additional import tariffs imposed by China on the United States have significantly increased the selling prices of products in the domestic market. This is mainly due to the overall increase in the tax - inclusive prices of products imported from the United States and the rise in the prices of domestic products protected by trade measures. Combining the World Input - Output Table and the input - output linkages among Chinese industries, this paper further examines the transmission of tariffs among industries. Overall, China's domestic prices have not been significantly impacted by international market tariff fluctuations, but the impacts on different products vary significantly. In addition, although the overall impact of rising tariffs on prices is limited, it still brings some negative economic effects. This study provides new empirical evidence for a deeper understanding of the transmission of tariff changes to the domestic market, and also provides important policy implications for China to build a new development pattern of "dual circulation" and maintain stable economic operation.

Author Biographies:

Dai Mi is a professor and doctoral supervisor at BNUBS, and a national - level young talent. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Peking University. His main research directions are international trade and development economics. His research results have been published in domestic and international academic journals such as Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Management World, China Economic Quarterly, and World Economy. He has won scientific research and teaching awards such as the Outstanding Achievements Award of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research of the Ministry of Education, the Outstanding Thesis Award of An Zijie International Trade, and the Outstanding Thesis Award of Pu Shan World Economics.

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