Economic Impacts of COVID-2019 and its Implications on e-Commerce Buying Interest: A Case Study in Shopee Online-shop
Abstract
The main objective of this study is to investigate the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the implications of buying interest in e-Commerce. This research was conducted with two regression tests. The first obtained a significant influence on the implementation of social distance and fear of COVID-19 policy on buying interest, and the second test was conducted to obtain the value of support from the control variable (Z), namely promotion in encouraging social distance and fear COVID-19 variable goes to buying interest. The test results concluded that the economy can still be supported nationally with online trading efforts through e-Commerce. Social distance has a positive and significant effect on buying interest. Fear of COVID-19 negatively affects buying interest. Social distance has a positive and significant effect on promotion. This means that fear of COVID-19 has a positive and significant effect on promotion.
Keywords: economic impacts, COVID-2019, e-commerce, buying interest, online-shop