Mohammad Sayadi; Abbas Shakeri; Teymur Mohammadi; Javid Bahrami
Abstract
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of oil revenue, productivity and money growth rate shocks on macroeconomic variables, in the context of a DSGE model with the consideration of features such as big size of government activities in the economy, inefficiency of government investment, ...
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The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of oil revenue, productivity and money growth rate shocks on macroeconomic variables, in the context of a DSGE model with the consideration of features such as big size of government activities in the economy, inefficiency of government investment, the need to invest in development of infrastructures, and existence of “National Development Fund” (NDF) to support private sector investment. The research findings based on RBC model, show that oil revenue shock has increased the consumption, government spending (both current and capital expenditures) and has decreased inflation in short-run; although because the oil shock is transferred to demand side, this situation leads to increase of inflation in medium-term. Our results show that when the oil revenue increases, the resources of NDF and consequently the share of credit granted to private sector will be raised and this can promote private sector production. In addition, because of the structure of Iranian economy, the increase in oil revenue has little effect on growth and development of production in non-oil producing sectors. Furthermore, the research findings show that when the inefficiency of public investments decreases, the investment of oil revenues has more positive effects on private sector production as a crowding-in effect phenomenon. Likewise, each of productivity and monetary shocks in the model has the same results as the theoretical expectations.
Naser Khiabani; Hossein Amiri
Volume 14, Issue 54 , October 2014, , Pages 133-173
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of crude oil production and price shocks on the monetary, fiscal and macroeconomic variables in the framework of new Keynesian open economy DSGE model for Iran.Accordingly, the paper estimates a DSGE model composed of households, firms, foreign trade ...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of crude oil production and price shocks on the monetary, fiscal and macroeconomic variables in the framework of new Keynesian open economy DSGE model for Iran.Accordingly, the paper estimates a DSGE model composed of households, firms, foreign trade and consolidated accounts of government and central bankfor the Iran economy to be calibrated and simulated. The results of simulation and analysis of impulse response function indicate that the effects of crude oil prices and production shocks on investment, national output, marginal costs of production and inflation are positive and significant. They also show that the shocks have significantly positive effects on government spending, tax revenues and the monetary base. The findings suggest that monetary and fiscal policies in Iran are mainly formed by oil revenue due to the dependency of public budget through the currency obtained from oil export revenues. The results indicate that oil revenue is both a blessing and a curse for the economy. The results stress to reduce the dominance of government on oil revenues, government tax budgeting and limit the government’s access to foreign currency reserves
