Identification and Ranking the factors of hoarding outbreak; Using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Hoarding is one of the economic problems that affect social life. The lack of supply of basic goods and consumables items that needed for people life, increases prices and, in turn decrease the social welfare. On the other hand, hoarding affects the mental security of the people of the society. Unfortunately, over the long years, dealing with this phenomenon has been a passive, and for the breakdown of hoarding, hoarder was obliged to supply its goods to the market. If social policymakers do not have precise knowledge of the causes of hoarding outbreak, they will not have the possibility to battle with it immensely. In response to this need, this paper try to identify the various cultural, social, legal, and political factors affecting the hoarding outbreak and then prioritize these factors through Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The results of the study indicate that "The prevalence of Western-market-based culture"," The lack of proper management of economic shocks" and "non- abomination of hoarding in the view of people" are the three main factors that cause rampancy of hoarding.