Hassan Heidari; Zahra Salehiyan Salehi Nejad; Soleiman Feizi
Volume 14, Issue 54 , October 2014, , Pages 67-99
Abstract
Given the importance of identifying the relationship between exchange rate and trade balance in adoption of appropriate economic adjustment policies and the requirement of accurate estimation of elasticity of trade balance to income and price changes for proper timing of such policies, in this study ...
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Given the importance of identifying the relationship between exchange rate and trade balance in adoption of appropriate economic adjustment policies and the requirement of accurate estimation of elasticity of trade balance to income and price changes for proper timing of such policies, in this study the effect of domestic and foreign income and real exchange rates on the Iranian trade balance has been investigated. Moreover, the reactions of trade balance to changes in the variables of interest have been estimated using time varying parameter models over the period of 1338-1389.The results show that the coefficients of the estimated model are not constant over the time and they are influenced by structural changes such as: oil price shocks, economic policies and exogenous shocks such as the imposed war and the Islamic revolution. By comparing the price elasticity of the balance of trade and the real exchange rate, it can be seen that by increasing real exchange rates during the period of 47-50 and 56-67, the price elasticity is positive and becomes negative when real exchange rates reduce.
Leila Torki; Seyed Komail Tayebi; Mehdi Yazdani; Elham Fathi
Volume 14, Issue 53 , July 2014, , Pages 167-196
Abstract
An appropriate solution to resolve trade deficit is national currency devaluation. This policy is, at least in the long term, useful. It is based on the logic that any devaluation of national currency in the form of market mechanism reduces the trade deficit. On the other hand the trade balance of countries ...
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An appropriate solution to resolve trade deficit is national currency devaluation. This policy is, at least in the long term, useful. It is based on the logic that any devaluation of national currency in the form of market mechanism reduces the trade deficit. On the other hand the trade balance of countries are affected by several factors including the international financial conditions that change the volume of international transactions and in this way affect the economy as a whole and trade balance in particular. The purpose of this paper is to study the factors affecting trade balance between Iran and her ten trading partners with considerations of the financial crisis index as a symbol of the international financial conditions. For this purpose, a time series is specified and then estimated by ARDL and error correction model (ECM) for the period of 1981-2009. Also the effects of the financial crisis on trade balance using Impulse Response Functions are considered. The results show that J curve is only confirmed for the bilateral trade of Iran with China and Italy and for the other countries, with consideration of the financial crisis, this hypothesis is rejected. It should be noted that all coefficients are stable with respect to the CUSUM and CUSUMQ tests.
