Hossein Mohammadi; Aida Ariabod
Volume 17, Issue 52 , October 2012, , Pages 169-181
Abstract
Exchange regimes at the international level, over many years have several ups and downs and they affect the economic structure of countries. Different exchange regimes show how to determine the exchange rate in the economy. The impact of exchange rate regimes on trade is one of the important issues that ...
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Exchange regimes at the international level, over many years have several ups and downs and they affect the economic structure of countries. Different exchange regimes show how to determine the exchange rate in the economy. The impact of exchange rate regimes on trade is one of the important issues that have been in many applied studies. Devaluation (i.e. increase in Real exchange rate), will cause examined the current account status to worsen and then after a short period, the situation may reverse and the current account state will improve. This change in the current account is called J-shaped curve. For current account in this paper, using a vector error correction model VECM and impulse response functions, Iran and South Korea's trade balance dynamics during the 1996 -2008 period was reviewed using quarterly data and J-shaped curve for current account tested. The results of tests did not confirm the hypothesis of the existence of a J-shaped curve between the trade balance and Real exchange rate over the studied period. The reaction of trade balance to an increase in exchange rate in the long term was found as negative and significant. In connection with the positive impact real income of South Korea on Iran's trade balance, results indicate this coefficient is significant. Also the reaction of trade balance with respect to Iran's real income is negative and significant.
Ahmad Jafari Samimi; Zahra (Mila) Elmi; Arash Hadizade
Volume 9, Issue 32 , October 2007, , Pages 31-53
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of some macroeconomic variables on house price index. We apply a macroeconomic model with micro foundations that uses household income, stock price index, building service price index, housing completions, supply of money, and inflation to explain ...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of some macroeconomic variables on house price index. We apply a macroeconomic model with micro foundations that uses household income, stock price index, building service price index, housing completions, supply of money, and inflation to explain the changes in house price index. We use the ARDL and the ECM model with the seasonal data for the period 1995-2006 to estimate the speed of convergence to equilibrium. Our findings indicate that the macroeconomic variables can explain the changes in the house price index in Iran, and the sign of estimated coefficients confirm the hypothesis.
Enayatollah Fakhrai; Farrokh Norroozy
Volume 9, Issue 30 , April 2007, , Pages 119-135
Abstract
Rice is an important item in the Iranian agricultural product imports. This paper presents the estimation of an error correction model of linear approximation of the Almost Ideal Demand System for various kinds of imported rice, including Pakistanian, Thai, and others, as well as Iranian rice. The period ...
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Rice is an important item in the Iranian agricultural product imports. This paper presents the estimation of an error correction model of linear approximation of the Almost Ideal Demand System for various kinds of imported rice, including Pakistanian, Thai, and others, as well as Iranian rice. The period of the study covers the period1981-2004. The findings of the research show that short-run and long-run Marshalian own price elasticities are negative except for that of Pakistanian rice wich has a positive elastivity in the short-run, though very close to zero. The short-run Hicksian own price elasticities are all negative and close to those of Marshalian ones, except for Pakistanian rice which is positive in both cases. The Hicksian cross elasticties indicate that all Pakistanian and Thai rice are imported by government in response to the shortages in the domestic market. That is the complementarity of the domestic and the imported rice is not due to the consumer preferances.
Ali Sadeghzadeh Yazdi; Ahmad Jafari Samimi; Zahra(Mila) Elmi
Volume 8, Issue 29 , February 2007, , Pages 1-15
Abstract
Demand for money is an important part of the macroeconomic models and the monetary policy. In this paper, we estimate the Iranian demand for money for the period 1958-2003 using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method.
The results show that the real money balance, gross domestic ...
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Demand for money is an important part of the macroeconomic models and the monetary policy. In this paper, we estimate the Iranian demand for money for the period 1958-2003 using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method.
The results show that the real money balance, gross domestic product, inflation, foreign exchange rate, and government budget deficit have been co-integrated with each other. We also use the error correction model for short-run dynamic analysis. The result shows the speed of adjustment toward the long-run balance is slow.
