Meta-Analysis of Inflation Studies in Iran's Economy

Regarding the important role of inflation in Iran's economy, the various studies using different methods and periods have been done on the factors affecting inflation. Due to the many studies on explaining the causes and roots of inflation in Iran's economy, the aim of the present article is concentrated on the meta-analysis of inflation studies and the measuring of effect size for all affecting factors. Based on the minimum number of study criteria in doing the meta-analysis, the effect size has been calculated by combining inflation with the explanatory variables, including liquidity growth, budget deficits, exchange rate and inflation expectations. The results reveal that the combination of estimated coefficients for all explanatory variables is statistically positive, significant and homogeneous, which are 0.805, 3.344, 5.36 and 0.585, respectively.