Determinants of Inflation in Iran Based on Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA)

• Autorzy: Mohsen Mehrara , Arezoo Ghazanfari , Motahareh Alsadat Motahareh AlsadaMajdzadeh
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Due to the important influence of inflation on macro-economic variables, researchers pay tremendous amount of attention to its determinants. Accordingly, in the following research, the impact of 13 variables on inflation during the period of 1338-1391 by using Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) method has been investigated for Iran economy. The ranking of the 13 explanatory variables are obtained based on the probability of their inclusion in model. The results show that the energy price and money imbalance (lagged ratio of money to nominal output) have expected and positive effect on inflation rate with a probability of 100 % and they are considered as the key explanatory variables in inflation equation. The energy price, money imbalance, money growth and market exchange rate growth have the first to fourth rank respectively. The influence of the production growth is not significant on the inflation in the short-run but it gradually influences the inflation through money imbalance channel in the long-run. In addition, most of the disinflation effects due to decrease in money supply will appear with delay. These results imply the dominance of monetary variables on inflation with cost push factors not having important impacts on prices. Also, oil revenue and imports influence the inflation through exchange rate channel, production and money velocity(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Inflation; Economy; Bayesian models

PL

Inflacja; Gospodarka; Modele bayesowskie

• Czasopismo: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (ILSHS)
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: 2 (1)
• Strony: 10--17

Twórcy

autor

Mohsen Mehrara

autor

Arezoo Ghazanfari

autor

Motahareh Alsadat Motahareh AlsadaMajdzadeh

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