Essential and Non-essential Goods: A Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Modeling of the Infectious Disease Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak

Nuno Baetas-da-Silva () and António Portugal Duarte

A chapter in New Challenges for the Eurozone Governance, 2021, pp 171-185 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we propose a two-country, two-sector, New Keynesian model with essential and non-essential goods for the Euro Area to assess the macroeconomic consequences of a labor supply shock. Our model incorporates health status in the households’ maximization problem which depends on the time devoted to leisure. Health status is linked to the consumption of non-essential goods, such that the demand for non-essentials is decreasing with contemporaneous health. We calibrate the model for the case of Portugal and the rest of the Euro Area. Our simulations show that a labor supply shock affecting only the rest of the Euro Area reduces the demand for non-essential goods, generates inflation in the Portuguese economy and pushes both regions into economic recession, depriving households from essential goods. In addition, we also show that if the labor supply shock affects both economies, the negative income effect dominates the decreased demand effect for non-essential goods and that stagflation is a plausible scenario. Lastly, our calibration scheme allows us to conclude that the asymmetric effects across economies may be due to different price rigidities between sectors and to different production structures between countries.

Keywords: Essential goods; Non-essential goods; COVID-19; DSGE; Euro Area. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62372-2_9

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