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ArticleIranian journal of pharmaceutical research : IJPR2021

The Impact of Inflation and Its Uncertainty on Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from Iran.

Maryam Soleimani Movahed, Aziz Rezapour, Sajad Vahedi, Hassan Abolghasem Gorji, Rafat Bagherzadeh, Ali Nemati, Gholamreza Nemati, Saeed Mohammad-Pour

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Maryam Soleimani MovahedDepartment of Health Economics, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Aziz RezapourHealth Management and Economics Research center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Sajad VahediDepartment of Health Care Management, School of Health, Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Hassan Abolghasem GorjiDepartment of Health Services Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Rafat BagherzadehDepartment of English Language, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ali NematiDepartment of Health Services Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Gholamreza NematiDepartment of Economics, School of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
Saeed Mohammad-PourHealth Management and Economics Research center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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Pharmaceutical productions are recognized as an essential commodity in the economical literature; therefore, an increase in their prices leads to an increase in the household budget. Currently, about 15-20% of the entire health expenditure in Iran is allocated to the pharmaceutical sector. This study aimed to investigate the effect of inflation and its uncertainty on inflation in pharmaceutical prices in Iran. In this study, the monthly time series of consumer price index from 2001 to 2017 was used to calculate inflation uncertainty based on a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity model. Hylleberg-Engle-Granger-Yoo test was performed to determine the stationary of the data. Feasibility tests were also used to explore the application of Autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity family models to these data. The causal relationship between inflation uncertainty and inflation in the pharmaceutical sector was investigated using the Granger causality test. A causal relationship was found between inflation and inflation uncertainty at the 95% confidence interval for the monthly data during the study. It was revealed that Inflation uncertainty did not affect the inflation in the pharmaceutical prices, but inflation can be a cause of pharmaceutical inflation. Although inflation uncertainty has no association with pharmaceutical inflation, it seems that it could affect pharmaceutical inflation through inflation in other sectors. Therefore, adopting appropriate monetary policies aimed at controlling liquidity and inflation can effectively control pharmaceutical prices.

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