Home Production: Does It Matter for the Korean Macroeconomy during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Yugang He
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Yugang He: College of Liberal Arts, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-12

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous influence on many aspects of life in Korea. Some people have had to relocate their workplaces from factories or offices to their homes in order to stop the spread of the virus. This paper examines the effects of home production on the Korean macroeconomy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, the impulse response function is used to perform an empirical analysis. The results show that total output, market goods consumption, investment, capital, and market work hours all decline as a consequence of a home productivity shock, while home goods consumption, wages, transfer payments, and home work hours all increase. Moreover, using fiscal policies such as lowering the capital tax rate and increasing the fiscal deficit, the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Korean macroeconomy can be improved. Robustness tests are carried out in light of the uneven economic development and different COVID-19 pandemic scenarios inside and outside the Seoul circle. The conclusions of this paper are accurate and reliable, as shown by the results of the robustness test.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Korean macroeconomy; impulse response function; home production; fiscal policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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