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In this study, the continuous wavelet transformation approach is employed to test the dynamics of the causality between two principal inflation indices i.e. consumer price index (CPI) and producer price index (PPI) based on monthly data from 1990:5 to 2013:12 for the Iranian economy. Analyzing the dynamics of causality between these two inflation indices could provide significant policy implications. One of the dominant aspects of this approach compared with the conventional causality tests is that it has a higher ability in analyzing dynamics of causality between time series. The wavelet, as a band pass filter to the time series, is stretched in time by varying its scale, which makes it possible to show the short run and long run causalities between the time series. In this paper, we apply the continuous wavelet transformation to study the inflationary cycles of the Iranian economy. The results confirm both demand-pull and cost-push nature of inflation by indicating bidirectional causality between the CPI and PPI. In fact, the causality directions vary over time depending on different economic conditions.

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