Financial monetary economy
Yaser Moomivand; seyyd mohammadbagher najafi; Kaveh Derakhshani Darabi; jamal fathollahi
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Monetary policies are one of the most important policy tools for improving economicvariables, including inflation and production. Monetary policy is currently a dynamic andchallenging field of economic sciences, theoretically and empirically. The views on the effectof monetary policy on production vary ...
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Monetary policies are one of the most important policy tools for improving economicvariables, including inflation and production. Monetary policy is currently a dynamic andchallenging field of economic sciences, theoretically and empirically. The views on the effectof monetary policy on production vary from the ineffectiveness and neutrality of money inthe short and long term to the effectiveness of monetary policy and its effect on production inthe long term and even in the short term.2. Review of the literatureInstitutional aspects and their effect on economic variables and the economic performance ofdifferent societies have been attracted by experts in the field since the 1980s and led to thedevelopment and expansion of its literature in the 1990s. Moreover, the valuable works ofNorth and Coase, as well as, winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their effortsto introduce institutional analyses put forward institutionalism as one of the leading economictheories. According to this literature, it can be stated that the same impulses and policies canbe followed by different reactions due to temporal and spatial differences in the institutionalenvironment in which they happened (Dehghan Monshadi, 2019).2.1. The effect of governance on the effectiveness of policiesThe new economic literature emphasizes the importance of institutions and governanceconditions in the economic development process and the performance of economic policies.Governance has a long history and has been defined in different ways. It literally meansdomination, ruling, and strategic government, but it means the activity of countrymanagement and control of a company or organization in the Oxford English Dictionary(Gholipoor, 2004).3. Materials and methodsThis research investigated the effect of variables on the effectiveness of monetary policyusing the model introduced by De Mendonça and Nascimento (2018), which is presented asRelation (1).(1)where is the index obtained for the effectiveness of the monetary policy in the i th country inthe t th year, GGI is the index of good governance, and X is other economic variables affectingthe effectiveness of the monetary policy, such as the degree of openness of the economy, thedevelopment of financial markets, and virtual variable of the existence of the inflationtargeting policy in the relevant country. In the years with the inflation targeting policy, thevalue was set to 1, but it was 0 in other years. In addition, the GDP variable was included inthe model to include other variables affecting the effectiveness of monetary policy.4. ResultsThe effectiveness index of monetary policy was calculated for the sample countries beforeestimating the coefficients using the proposed approach. This research calculated theeffectiveness of monetary policy using the approach introduced by Krause and Rioja (2006).In this approach, and were calculated for the selected countries in each year. The inflationdeviation was measured by the deviation of the consumer price index. Analysis of thedescriptive statistics for the research variables demonstrated that this index average for thecountries in the period under study was 2980.43 and the median equaled 1.48. It should benoted that the lower the value of the index, the more effective the policy would be in thereduction of inflation and production fluctuations. The highest and lowest index value was873575.4 and -107.91, respectively. Jarque- Bera statistic and its significance level alsoshowed that the distribution of the variable is not normal.5. ConclusionAs shown by the results of earlier studies and the present research, the process of selection,decision-making, and performance of individuals and societies takes place within theframework of institutions. Thus, their reaction to various phenomena, including economicand monetary policies, depends on institutions. One of the major institutions is thegovernance that affects economic variables with monetary and financial policies. Therefore,the primary objective of this research was to determine the effect of governance quality onthe effectiveness of monetary policy. According to the results, improving the quality ofgovernance significantly reduced production and inflation fluctuations and enhanced theeffectiveness of monetary policy. Hence, it could be concluded that in societies withfavorable governance indicators, better and more complete implementation of laws andregulations could be expected, and formal and informal obstacles to implement economicpolicies are reduced. The results obtained from the estimation of coefficients indicated asignificant relationship between the inflation targeting policy and the increased effectivenessof monetary policy. The existence of inflation-targeting policy and its obligation make thecentral bank focus more on the main goals of monetary policy, which is to maintain the valueof the national currency and increase economic stability. Under such circumstances, thepolicy-maker can have more authority in controlling inflation and production fluctuationsrather than other secondary goals, resulting in more success in controlling inflation andproduction fluctuations.
Financial monetary economy
Farhad Sharifi Bagha; Jafar Haghighat; Zahra Karimi Takanlou
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1- INTRODUCTIONMonetary policy, as one of the most important economic tools that affects various economic variables through different channels and with different speed and intensity, has always been the attention of the responsible authorities of countries, especially developing countries like ...
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1- INTRODUCTIONMonetary policy, as one of the most important economic tools that affects various economic variables through different channels and with different speed and intensity, has always been the attention of the responsible authorities of countries, especially developing countries like Iran. On the other hand, banks, as financial and credit institutions that have a special place in the country's economy, play a decisive role in the circulation of money and society's wealth. Therefore, examining the impact of monetary policy shocks on the health of Iran's banking system, which is done through the exchange rate channel, is particularly important and is the main goal of this research. Therefore, by using 96 variables of seasonal time series data affecting the bank's profitability index, which is one of the most important indicators of measuring and judging the health of the banking system during the period of 1401:4-1378:1 and using the experimental model of the factor- Added (FAVAR), we investigate the effect of monetary policy through the exchange rate channel on the health of the banking system in Iran. The results show the direct effect of monetary policy through the exchange rate channel on the growth rate of bank network deposits and consequently the power to grant facilities, the amount of bank operating income and the growth rate of bank claims, which from this point of view is one of the most important indicators of the health of the system. A bank that has a profitability index has a negative and significant effect. On the other hand, the effect of monetary policy shocks through the exchange rate channel on the amount of deposit attraction (current, short-term, long-term Rial and foreign currency deposits) and the amount of power to grant facilities and the bank's operating income (income from granting facilities, income from of foreign exchange) is negative and significant and has a positive and significant effect on the amount of claims in the bank.2- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKAnzwaini et al. (2012) conducted a study aimed at the impact of monetary policy shocks on commodity prices. Global monetary conditions are often cited as a driver of commodity prices. This paper examines the empirical relationship between US monetary policy and commodity prices using a standard VAR system, which is commonly used in analyzing the effects of monetary policy shocks.Jordo et al. (2019) conducted a study with the aim of whether SVARs identify unconventional monetary policy shocks? they did. We show that the used identification schemes have not been able to recover real unconventional monetary policy shocks in the Eurozone. In their identification schemes, information on the size of the central bank's balance sheet is key to distinguishing monetary policy shocks from other shocks that reduce financial market stress.Niazi Mohseni et al. (2019) conducted a study with the aim of investigating the effect of monetary policy shocks and oil revenues on inflation and economic growth in Iran. In this study, the data of the explained variables were used for the period of 1357 to 1397. Data analysis was done using STATA software. The results of this study showed that the increase in the bank interest rate has reduced the economic growth rate for at least two years after the application of the shock, and after that the effect of the shock tends to zero.Asefi et al. (2021) conducted a study on the effect of monetary policy through the asset price channel on financial development. In this study, using seasonal time series data of 110 economic variables in the period of 1370-1390 and self-explanatory model A generalized factor (FAVAR), the impact of monetary policies has been evaluated through the channel of housing and stock prices. The results of the impulse response functions indicate that the housing price channel has increased production in the medium and long term, but it has also had significant inflationary effects in the short and medium term. 3- METHODOLOGYFAVAR model introduced by Bernanke et al. (2005) is a combination of VAR model and factor analysis model. Composite dynamics (Yt, Ft) should be assumed as equation 1.According to the statistical limitations in Iran, the time period investigated in this data research will be the years 2012-2021 and the research variables include three categories:Table 1: Introduction of Xt vector variables, Yt vector exogenous variables and F vector hidden factorsBrief description of the variable Brief description of the variable Rial long term depositLDRLong-term currency depositLDFRial short term depositSDRShort term currency depositSDFriyal current depositsDDRCurrency current depositsDDFLendingloanClaims of non-governmental entitiesDIGovernment claims to the bankDigexchange rateEXCHClaims of other banks and financial institutions to the bankDibIncome from granting facilitiesInlIncome from currency exchangeBcOther variables as hidden factorsبردار The equation can be written as follows using model variables: 4- RESULTS & DISCUSSIONThe results obtained from the findings show that the monetary policy through the exchange rate channel has led to a direct effect on the deposits of the banking network and as a result the power to grant facilities and the amount of non-current bank claims which as a result It has an impact on one of the most important indicators of the health of the banking system, which is the profitability index, and this impact is negative and significant. Also, the effect of monetary policy shocks through the exchange rate channel on the amount of deposit attraction (current, short-term, long-term Rial and foreign currency deposits) and the amount of power to grant facilities and the bank's operating income (income from granting facilities, income from of foreign exchange) is negative and significant and has a positive and significant effect on the number of claims in the bank. 5- CONCLUSIONS & SUGGESTIONSConsidering the importance of the banking sector, in this study, using the FAVAR model, the impact of monetary policy shocks through the exchange rate channel on the health of the banking system of Iran during the years 2012-2021 was investigated.At the beginning, the unit root test was used to measure the significance of the variables using Stata software, and all the variables were at the significance level.In the following, with the help of Schwarz-Baysin, Akaik and Hanan-Quinn criteria, as well as the maximum likelihood statistic, the optimal interval is determined, and since these criteria do not yield the same results, the AIC criterion is used to determine the optimal interval length. and the obtained optimal interval length is specified as one. According to the obtained results, using the FAVAR model is very suitable for measuring the relationships between variables. The results of the model estimation results show that the monetary policy through the exchange rate channel has led to a direct effect on the deposits of the banking network and consequently the power to grant facilities and the amount of non-current bank claims, which is one of the most important the health indicators of the banking system, which is the profitability index, are effective. For this reason, fluctuations caused by monetary policy shocks in the exchange rate, as one of the most important factors affecting the health of the banking system, will have a negative and significant impact.Also, the effect of monetary policy shocks through the exchange rate channel on the amount of deposit attraction (current, short-term, long-term Rial and foreign currency deposits) and the amount of power to grant facilities and the bank's operating income (income from granting facilities, income from of foreign exchange) is negative and significant and has a positive and significant effect on the number of claims in the bank
samira zareinezhad; kiomars sohaili; Shahram Fattahi
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Extended abstract
1- INTRODUCTIO
In order to have an effective monetary policy, it is necessary for the monetary authorities to have sufficient information about the effect, the channels of start the effect, the duration of the effect and the time when the effect of the monetary policy effect peaks. ...
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1- INTRODUCTIO
In order to have an effective monetary policy, it is necessary for the monetary authorities to have sufficient information about the effect, the channels of start the effect, the duration of the effect and the time when the effect of the monetary policy effect peaks. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the intersection of credit channel, housing price channel, stock price channel and exchange rate channel in the nonlinear transmission mechanism of monetary policy on inflation in the Iranian economy. It has a structure in different regimes and the data of the central bank are used during the years1978-2017.
2- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Monetary policy is a set of actions that the central bank (monetary authority) through monetary instruments affect many economic goals such as price stability, exit from recession, stimulation of economic growth and increasing employment. This effect of monetary policy on the set goals and improvement in macroeconomic performance will indicate the efficiency of monetary policy. Central banks, as monetary policy makers in most countries of the world, seek the effectiveness of their monetary policies and to better understand the structures governing their economic environment in order to implement appropriate and timely policies and put economic variables on the path of growth and development. In this regard, how to formulate monetary policy and use monetary instruments is of particular importance in macroeconomics.
3- METHODOLOGY
A novel feature of the Markov switching model is that the regime change mechanism in this model depends on a status variable. in other words, the recent value of the state variable just depends on the its value in previous periods. to calculate the unconditional probabilities in a model that include two regimes indicate the probability of being in each regime, we can consider the possibility of changing the parameters in different regimes, the linear VAR model transforme the MSVAR model:
4- RESULTS &DISCUSSION
The role of the exchange rate channel in transferring money to inflation is positive in both regimes, meaning that it increases inflation. Given the structure of the Iranian economy and due to the high dependence on the price of finished products of domestic production to imported capital goods, it seems that the exchange rate will play a dominant role in determinayion the fate of inflation in the Iranian economy.
The role of housing price channel in transferring money to inflation in regime one increases inflation and negative effects on monetary policy in Iran’s economy, while in regime two, housing price channel in transferring money to inflation has played the largest share in reducing inflation.
The role of corporate credit channel in transferring money to inflation in the regime has a greater share than the second regime in transferring money to inflation. As a result, in economic policies, special attention should be paid to the inflationary effects if the granted facilities.
Stock price channel, support of the stock market should be one of the main priorities of officials. Because in the Iranian economy, which is always involved in high inflation, the stock market without inflationary effects can increase investment to increase production.
5-CONCLUSIONS & SUGGESTIONS
According to our results, it is suggested that to control inflation, policymakers should pay special attention to changes in currency price. At the same time, the policymaker can reduce the dependence of the country's industry on the import of capital goods and strengthen domestic financial instruments, such as the return on bank deposits, stock exchanges, etc. To strengthen other transfer channels so that it can rely on other channels to control inflation.
Mohsen Niazimohseni; Hamid Shahrestani; Kambiz Hojabr Kiani; Farhad Ghafari
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Introduction Monetary and financial affiliation, always closely linked to oil sector in Iran (as an oil exporter country) has made Monetary Policy a remarkable challenge to the economic policy- makers. In fact, according to expected statistics, a considerable amount of budget is provided by currency ...
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Introduction Monetary and financial affiliation, always closely linked to oil sector in Iran (as an oil exporter country) has made Monetary Policy a remarkable challenge to the economic policy- makers. In fact, according to expected statistics, a considerable amount of budget is provided by currency sources from oil export and withdrawal from foreign exchange reserve account by which Central Bank inevitably buys currency resulting to increase monetary base. Lack of possibility of mathematical anticipation and uncertainty of oil revenues to finance is one of the challenges monetary authorities encounter in Iran. Accordingly, mathematical programing for economic stability requires identifying the effect of Monetary Policy based on oil revenue. Examination of the effect of Monetary Policy in economics started with the theory of '' the amount of money''. Economic experts are of different viewpoints on the impact of Monetary Policy on Marco variables. According to theoretical and experimental literature, Monetary Policy makes an outstanding difference on Marco variables. On the other hand such policies are extinguished by oil revenue leading to more obscurity. Theoretical framework According to the existing literature, the way of applying Monetary Policy is different in oil exporter and importer countries. when oil price rises, Central bank, In order to control inflation, increases the interest rate, and Monetary Policy acts as a contraction in oil importer countries. However, in oil exporter countries, when oil price rises, currency revenues, mainly in the hands of the government, increases, and the government, by converting part of oil dollars to domestic currency, intentionally or unintentionally, increases the amount of money to provide its expenses. So, in exporter countries like Iran, oil revenues directly affect economic Macro variables. They, also, indirectly affect through Monetary Policy. Methodology The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of monetary policy on economic Marco variables due to oil revenues. This study has, also, used interest rate variable, bank facilities, and legal reserve rate on monetary policy. Such variables have been used, indoors or outdoors, in different economic studies. Basically, in this study, the economic Marco variables are also economic growth and inflation rate respectively due to the limited access to information and also other existing limitations. To measure the economic growth rate, GDP growth rate at a fixed price has been used. The inflation rate resulted from consumer price index growth rate (CPI). In this study, using STATA software, the variables have been used from the years 1978 to 2017. Results & Discussion The results of this study have shown that the rise in bank interest rate has run down the economic growth rate at least up to two years after applying the shock. It drifted towards zero afterwards. With the rise in bank interest rate growth, the cost of financing has been decimated resulting to investment reduction. On the other hand, with the rise in bank interest rate, the inflation rate has been reduced. It is obvious shock standard deviation in bank facilities interest rate has, up to three periods after applying the shock, left positive impact on inflation rate, and the impact has been reduced to zero. Economic growth reveals like bank facilities rate, such a variable has a negative impact on Iran's economic growth. The rise in legal reserve rate has been one period after applying the shock up to zero in the second period. On the other hand, the impact of legal reserve rate has been positive on inflation rate. It has been shown that shock standard deviation reduces inflation rate in legal reserve rate. The rise in oil revenues leads the rise in economic growth rate, thus, reduced to zero up to two periods after applying the shock. With increasing oil revenues, by the government's expenses increase as well. Thus, it leads to the rise in demand, and also, economic growth indoors. Conclusions & Suggestions Based on the results, implementation of monetary policy in Iran has negative effect on economic growth, which is also consistent with the Iran Economy, so policymakers must use another policy for stimulating the economic growth. Put on the agenda.
Noor Olah Salehi Asfeji; Yaser Balaghi Inaloo
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Sidrauski's (1967) model of money in the utility function in the framework of a neoclassical growth model, has analyzed the role of money in the economy. His conclusions suggest that money is super-neutral in the steady state. The basic research problem is generalized Sidrauski's model according ...
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Sidrauski's (1967) model of money in the utility function in the framework of a neoclassical growth model, has analyzed the role of money in the economy. His conclusions suggest that money is super-neutral in the steady state. The basic research problem is generalized Sidrauski's model according to Reis (2007). Then, using optimal control approach, analysis the non-neutrality of monetary policy effects through nominal interest rate in the generalized Sidrauski's model. The results of calibration and sensitivity analysis of macroeconomic variables in Iranian economy indicate that as long as demand for real money balances elastic regard to nominal interest rate in non-separation utility function, monetary policy is not neutral in steady state. Therefore, a monetary policy that leads to a 3.6% decline in nominal interest rate growth, causing an increase in real money balances from 9.82 to 10.63. Finally, increased levels of capital per capita, output per capita and consumption per capita from 8.46, 2.90 and 2.38 to 9.42, 3.07 and 2.88. In addition, simulated results during the (1434-1344) in Iranian economy indicate that monetary policy, which leads to lower nominal rates, has increased the level of capital, production and consumption per capita continually.
Introduction
Although in macroeconomic literature related to rational expectations, where there is no monetary illusion and markets are settled, monetary policy has no real effect on the economy (Begg, 1980, Sidrauski, 1967, Lucas, 1972); but how the interaction between the real sector and Money is one of the questions that different economic schools have answered differently. In this context, various hypotheses have been put forward about the relationship between the real sector and the monetary sector of the economy: one hypothesis indicates that money is neutral in the long run. Other hypotheses suggest that money is super-neutral in the long run, but accepting or rejecting any of the above hypotheses affects the role of monetary policy in the economy.
In this regard, the main purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of monetary policy through nominal interest rates on the generalized Sidrasky model in the Iranian economy using the optimal control approach. The relevant analysis was first performed by calibrating and analyzing the sensitivity of macro variables in the steady state. Finally, the simulation of the macro-variable path is done.
Theoretical frame work
In the basic Sidrauski model (1967), as an extended model of the Ramsey model (1928), money is also entered for the first time along with consumption in the utility function. In this model, it is assumed that, first, the money supply increases at a constant rate over time. Second, in a steady state, the real balance of money is constant over time. Therefore, according to these two conditions, the super-neutral results of money are obtained.
Methodology
In this model, the economy as a unit is made up of the same households with an unlimited lifetime, and the representative households benefit from the actual consumption of goods and the actual balance of money. It is also a function of desirability, continuity, good behavior, mostly concurrent and increasing relative to and the actual balances of money. Optimal control methods are used to solve the model and reach the optimal consumption path, real money balances and capital. By forming the Hamiltonian function, we will have maximization for the problem:
(1)
Where the nominal interest rate. is marginal utility of consumption. Necessary conditions are:
(2)
(3)
(4)
Using Equilibrium Relationships (2) and (3) we will have:
(5)
Results & Discussion
The results of simulating the path of macro-pattern variables indicate that monetary policy, which leads to lower nominal interest rates, has continuously increased the level of capital, production, consumption, and real money balances.
Conclusions & Suggestions
The results of solving the model in the steady state indicate that with the elasticity of real money demand relative to the nominal rate in the inseparable utility function, the use of monetary policy that reduces the nominal interest rate, leads to increase in demand for real money. Eventually, it reduces the real interest rate. So, it leads to an increase in the level of per capita capital, production and consumption. Therefore, monetary policymakers are encouraged to apply monetary policy in line with optimal monetary policy to increase nominal variables through the channel of lower nominal interest rate channels.
Ebrahim Gorji Bandpi; Farzaneh Anvari Rostamkolaii
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This paper investigates the role of the central bank and monetary policy in the occurrence of the business cycles in Iran’s economy. This is important since the effects of monetary policy on the business cycle and its dynamics are the main stage in understanding the role of financial markets in the ...
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This paper investigates the role of the central bank and monetary policy in the occurrence of the business cycles in Iran’s economy. This is important since the effects of monetary policy on the business cycle and its dynamics are the main stage in understanding the role of financial markets in the economy. Therefore, in this study, using the quarterly data from, 1999-2013 the cycles in GDP and liquidity have been elicited (with the help of economic filters); then, using vector autoregressive model, it is shown that fluctuations in liquidity are leading the fluctuations in production.
The most important and crucial issue among modern economics is the existence of commercial cycles or economic fluctuations. The emergence of such business cycles, which in many cases caused problems for the economies and created a period of unintentional inflationary or recessionary events which could itself lead to other adverse economic conditions. Consequently, it seems the study of this phenomenon and the causes of its creation as well as finding options to deplete those problems are the most concerning issues of economic policies in every country. Commercial cycles are fluctuations which are defined in terms of frequency periods of boom and recession. Economic activities usually consist of two stages, recession and boom. When production and employment decrease and lead to poverty, they reduce the welfare and lower the living level of people; hence, it means that economic activities are in recession. Additionally, when production and employment rise, it brings about welfare and increases society’s living quality; this means economic is about to get better or boom. Although, these cycles occur frequently, none of two cycles are similar to each other. During later decades recognition of causes, predictions and economic fluctuations are the most important issues of macroeconomic and policy making economists. Among commercial cycles, usually parameters like production, employment, real income and real sale level decrease and increase together. On the other hand, some economic parameters before empowering a cycle are considered as pioneer indices, which indicate the existence of an economic cycle in future. Among these parameters, we can name those that are cooperating in changing of money, credits, crucial prices, order volume in production parts, personal contracts, number of started buildings and number of working hours. It can be said that, a group of economists believe that economics essentially has a problem which for some reasons will lead to commercial cycles. On the other hand, another group of them believe that some external intruding will lead to the creation or at least increase of these cycles. According to the second group, economics essentially has stability and since the external intruding of government, banks, and other sources do not exist, economics will not experience any commercial cycle, and as a result, the essential and crucial question is whether it is possible to get rid of the cycles.
Generally, we can study the reasons of growths in real volume of country’s economic activities in two aspects of changes in demand and supply. The considerable point is that, the existence of stability in a country’s economy could be useful in various aspects and essentially one of the duties of governments and planning systems is providing economic stability. Thus, with the recognition of fluctuation’s structure and cycles in economy, we should try to control and decrease the intensity of them. Severe economic fluctuations or cycles are natural, and instability growths in economy, households, and economic firms cannot make a bright prediction of future. In times of recession or moving towards a recession, unemployment has increased and production has declined, and some production units may even be out of business and prices are falling. What is important is to know what initially creates prosperity and then, after a period of economic activity, it will lead to slowdowns and stagnation. In other word, it seems that in economic cycles we must look for the reasons of appearance, duration, and power of these fluctuations. There are various theories and reasons which lead to commercial cycles in macroeconomic literatures. Some of these theories say that the origin of fluctuations and commercial cycles is in policies of the demand side. The theory of Keynesians, the monetary (Chicago School), and the theory of rational expectations and its subcategories, including the new classics (monetary branches) and the new Keynesians, are among these theories.
According to some theories, commercial cycles are related to supply spectrum theory. One of these is the Real Commercial Cycle Theory (RBC), which argues that fluctuations and business cycles are explained by the volatility of real variables in the economy . Whether the central bank can pursue active economic stabilization policies and, on the other hand, whether anti-cyclical monetary policies can be effective in controlling business cycles is a great help for economic policy-makers and policy makers. The answer to these questions will be very helpful to economic regulators and central banks’ policy makers. Consequently, it seems that the recognition and understanding of commercial cycles will be the first step in retrieving the role of central bank, and as a result, they will be considered in designing stability policies.
Based on the obtained results, on average, 23 periods are observed, with peak periods, the rate of liquidity change was about 9 months (6 months) from the peak of the level of economic activity.
Results and discussion
Variance Dissection (VD)
The results of the dissection of variance in Table 10 show that in the short term (about three cycles ), the explanatory power of the growth of government expenditures from periods of stagnation and boom is higher than the explanatory power of liquidity growth, but, in the medium and long term, liquidity growth has a greater potential for expanding business cycles and periods of recession.
Conclusion
In this paper, we tried to answer the above question using a theoretical explanation and designing a self-regression vector (VAR) model in order to analyze the experimental effect of this relationship. Based on the results, it is found that, on average, using 23 cycles, the peak of interest rates was about 9 months away from the peak of economic activity. This could indicate that fluctuations and changes in the rate of liquidity growth as an indicator for monetary policy in the Iranian economy are one of the factors that trigger business cycles in Iran's economy. To evaluate the dynamics among the model variables, the action-response functions were used. The results reflect the negative reaction of the business cycle to inflation. In other words, the inflation rate has a positive and significant effect on the duration of the recession, so by increasing it by one percent, the length of the recession or the risk of withdrawal from this period will be reduced. Therefore, with rising inflation, the length of the recession in Iran will increase.
mahdi ghaemiasl; Mahmod Hossin Mahdvi Adeli; shhab matin; sayed mahdi mosavi barrodi
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Iran has more than a century of history in exploration and production; the first successful exploration well was Masjid Suleiman-1 on May 26, 1908. Since then, based on the latest oil and gas reports, 145 hydrocarbon fields and 297 oil and gas reservoirs have been discovered in Iran, with many fields ...
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Iran has more than a century of history in exploration and production; the first successful exploration well was Masjid Suleiman-1 on May 26, 1908. Since then, based on the latest oil and gas reports, 145 hydrocarbon fields and 297 oil and gas reservoirs have been discovered in Iran, with many fields having multiple pay zones. Proved oil reserves in Iran, according to its government, rank fifth largest in the world at approximately 150 billion barrels as of 2014, although it ranks third if Canadian reserves of unconventional oil are excluded. This is roughly 10% of the world's total proven petroleum reserves.
Oil sector in most of oil exporting countries (such as Iran) is a state-run sector and oil revenues belong to government. Iran is an energy superpower and the Petroleum industry in Iran plays an important part in it. In 2004 Iran produced 5.1 percent of the world’s total crude oil (3.9 million barrels per day), which generated revenues of US$25 billion to US$30 billion and was the country’s primary source of foreign currency. At 2006 levels of production, oil proceeds represented about 18.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). However, the importance of the hydrocarbon sector to Iran’s economy has been far greater. The oil and gas industry has been the engine of economic growth, directly affecting public development projects, the government’s annual budget, and most foreign exchange sources. In 2009, the sector accounted for 60 percent of total government revenues and 80 percent of the total annual value of both exports and foreign currency earnings. Oil and gas revenues are affected by the value of crude oil on the international market. It has been estimated that at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quota level (December 2004), a one-dollar change in the price of crude oil on the international market would alter Iran’s oil revenues by US$1 billion.
The main hypothesis of this study is that the government's dependence on oil revenues has been caused policy passivity in Iran's economy. Fiscal policy and monetary policy are the two tools used by the state to achieve its macroeconomic objectives. While for many countries the main objective of fiscal policy is to increase the aggregate output of the economy, the main objective of the monetary policies is to control the interest and inflation rates. Traditionally, both the policy instruments were under the control of the national governments. Thus traditional analyses were made with respect to the two policy instruments to obtain the optimum policy mix of the two to achieve macroeconomic goals, lest the two policy tools be aimed at mutually inconsistent targets. In case of an active fiscal policy and a passive monetary policy, when the economy faces an expansionary fiscal shock that raises the price level, money growth passively increases as well because the monetary authority is forced to accommodate these shocks. But in case both the authorities are active, then the expansionary pressures created by the fiscal authority are contained to some extent by the monetary policies.
In other word the central bank's monetary policy and fiscal policy of the government have a heavy reliance on oil revenues and budgeting and monetary changes, instead of being active and effective, have an affective and passive nature and are subject to oil shocks.
In this study in order to investigate this hypothesis, seasonal data of 1369:1 to 1389:4 of oil revenues, government expenditures (as a representative of fiscal policy), monetary base (as a representative of monetary policy), GDP, exchange rate and GDP deflator (as a representative of price index) in a Factor-Augmented Bayesian Vector Autoregressive model have been used. If a small number of estimated factors effectively summarize large amounts of information about the economy, then a natural solution to the degrees-of-freedom problem in VAR analyses is to augment standard VARs with estimated factors. In this paper we consider the estimation and properties of factor-augmented vector autoregressive models (FAVARs).
Results of impulse response function and variance decomposition clearly confirm the passive monetary and fiscal policy in the Iranian economy. In other words, among the variables of model, the most affected variables respectively are the monetary base and government expenditures. According to the authors, there are two basic ways to deal with policy passivity, which are sterilization and stabilization of oil revenues through the correct management of stabilization funds and diversification of exports. Sterilization is, not to bring all the revenues into the country all at once, and to save some of the revenues abroad in special funds and bring them in slowly. In developing countries, this can be politically difficult as there is often pressure to spend the boom revenues immediately to alleviate poverty, but this ignores broader macroeconomic implications. Sterilisation will reduce the spending effect, alleviating some of the effects of inflation. Another benefit of letting the revenues into the country slowly is that it can give a country a stable revenue stream, giving more certainty to revenues from year to year. Also, by saving the boom revenues, a country is saving some of the revenues for future generations. In addition Oil stabilization funds are usually designed to address the problems created by the volatility and unpredictability of oil revenues, the need to save part of the oil revenues for future generations or both.
