Research Article

COVID-19 Shocks, Monetary Policy, and Real Estate Price Volatility: Analysis Based on a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Perspective

Table 1

Parameter calibration.

CalibrationMeaningCalibration valueBasis for taking values

Savings-based household discount factor0.988Iacoviello and Neri [15]
Loan-based household discount factor0.95Wang and Hou [26]
Elasticity of substitution between labor inputs in each sector1
Quarterly depreciation rate of real estate0.8%
Capital depreciation rate (quarterly)2.5%Xu and Liu [33]
The inverse of the real wage elasticity of labor1Bernanke et al. [10], Peng and Fang [39]
Mortgage ratio0.7According to the current lending policy in China, the downpayment ratio for the first suite is usually 30%
Elasticity of output with respect to capital for the real estate firms0.5Iacoviello and Neri [15]
Elasticity of output of the consumer goods sector with respect to capital0.5
Price elasticity of demand for housing6Iacoviello [11]
Inflation under the interest rate rule0.15Hou and Gong [18]
Output gap under the interest rate rule1.5
Real estate price response coefficient under the interest rate rule1.5
Interest rate smoothing coefficient0.8
Inflation under the quantity rule0.5Xu and Liu [33]
Output gap under the quantity rule1.5
Real estate price response coefficient under the quantity rule1.5
Monetary supply smoothing coefficient0.8
Proportion of TFP declines in both sectors due to epidemic shocks0.0678Estimation based on Barro [35] estimation method with actual data from China.
Proportion of capital stock impaired due to epidemic shocks0.0678Chen et al. [34]