Christian Dreger

Member of Monetary Expert Panel (European Parliament), Germany.

[ 1 ] - Inflation and Cost Push in Iran's Economy

There have been two broad theories of inflation, namely the demand-pull theory of inflation (that is nowadays mainly the monetary theory of inflation) and the cost-push theory of inflation. The mainstream macroeconomics views inflation as a monetary phenomenon in the long run. Iran has experienced double-digit rates of inflation for about four decades. Our main aim is an explanation for the lon...

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