Journal of Economic Modeling Research

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Dominance of arid and semiarid climate in a vast area of Iran along with the water consumption growth necessitates a more sophisticated planning, a more efficient operation towards an optimal allocation and conservation of water resources in the country. In recent decades many countries, including Iran, have adopted increasing block tariffs for domestic water management. This policy is based on a progressive tariffs applied to control and manage the residential water consumption. In this paper, we developed a panel data model to investigate the impact of increasing block pricing on the residential water consumption during 2004-2008. The average and marginal price models of demand for residential water have been estimated to examine the effects of households’ income and the climate conditions on the residential water consumption. Results show that the increasing block pricing system has not efficiently controlled the residential water consumption in Iran.

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Hybrid sticky price model is one of  the main models, used to analyze the Persistencyand inertia in inflation. In recent years, Mankiw and Reis (2002),s sticky information model, has also been considered by many economic analysts. So, in present paper, we try to investigate and compare these models by using a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) framework, based on new Keynesian structure. For this purpose, the data 1370:1-1391:4 Iran's economy has been used. The results of the estimated coefficient of inflation inertia indicate, inflation inertia in the model of hybrid price stickiness is more than information stickiness model. Inflation Persistency analysis is based on comparing the autocorrelation function of the original data and simulated data, show that hybrid price stickiness is better thaninformation stickiness model shows inflation persistence.It seems to be a hybrid price stickiness model more consistent with the economy of Iran and economic policy makers can be more confident of the results of this model to use them.