Macroeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 and Universal Transfer Programs: The Case of Korea

Kwangyong Park

Global Economic Review, 2022, vol. 51, issue 4, 304-332

Abstract: In this paper, we analyse the impacts of COVID-19 and the policy response to it in Korea based on a version of a Macro-SIR model with labour friction, and with multiple types of jobs and households. Due to substantial uncertainty in the model and parameters that govern the interaction between epidemiological and macroeconomic developments, we rely on a prior predictive analysis when simulating the model. We find that the model successfully predicts an endogenous rise in the number of confirmed cases in the second half of 2020, and a sharp decline in economic activity followed by a temporary recovery caused by the government transfer program. It also turns out that low-wealth households are more damaged from the pandemic due to larger losses in terms of labour income. In addition, it is shown that the consumption multiplier of the universal transfer program is around 0.09.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/1226508X.2022.2143703

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