Asymmetric effects of sources of inflationary pressures on food and non-food prices in Iranian provinces: an application of quantile regressions
Subject Areas : Agricultural Economics ResearchDavoud Mahmoudinia 1 , Zahra Amiripour Ebrahim Abad 2
1 - Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan
2 - Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan
Keywords: Food price, Non-food price, Facilities, Gross domestic product, Quantile regression,
Abstract :
Maintaining a constant level of inflation has become one of the main goals of Iran's macroeconomics, because inflationary pressures have increased sharply in recent years, so the effective factors in creating this inflationary pressure must be properly identified and dealt with. In this way, in this research, for a more accurate understanding of total inflation, each of the main components of total inflation, i.e. food price inflation and non-food price inflation, are examined at the level of the country's provinces. Quantile regression as well as provincial and macro data for the period of 2007-2020 were used to investigate the dynamics and asymmetric effects of these relationships. The results of the estimation of the models show that variables such as gross domestic product, employment rate, exports, the cost of producing agricultural products and economic sanctions have a positive and significant effect, but variables such as the ratio of facilities to deposits and taxes on goods and services have a negative effect and Meaningful in all have distribution quantiles.
