Akbar Komijani; Naser Elahi; Masoud Salehi Rezveh
Volume 6, Issue 21 , November 2015, , Pages 78-61
Abstract
This paper investigates the monetary policy reaction of the Central Bank of Iran with threshold effects. The estimation of the nonlinear reaction function is carried out using a two-step procedure. At first step of this procedure, we follow Caner and Hansen's (2004) threshold approach. Using the Taylor ...
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This paper investigates the monetary policy reaction of the Central Bank of Iran with threshold effects. The estimation of the nonlinear reaction function is carried out using a two-step procedure. At first step of this procedure, we follow Caner and Hansen's (2004) threshold approach. Using the Taylor empirical rules and threshold variables including inflation and output gap we estimate the relevant threshold values. Then, to infer the monetary policy preferences, we employ these threshold values to estimate the asymmetric policy reaction function specified by Favero and Rovelli (2003) and Komlan(2013).This is done by Generalized Method of Moment (GMM). Experimental results show that the asymmetry parameter of the output gap is statistically significant. Thus, the Central Bank reacts more vigorously to negative than to positive output gaps. Also, the results suggest that Central Bank reacts only when the inflation rate is higher than the threshold. This fact indicates that the monetary authorities seek to improve the output and employment, and the priority of controling inflation rate is not considered during the study period.
Akbar Komijani; Gholamali Haji
Volume 2, Issue 7 , September 2012, , Pages 20-9
Abstract
In this article growth resources for Iran will be assessed for the period of 1959 – 2010 in format of two models. In the first model in addition of labor and capital from export, government expenditure and terms of trade in the production process will be used as effective inputs. Inserting export ...
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In this article growth resources for Iran will be assessed for the period of 1959 – 2010 in format of two models. In the first model in addition of labor and capital from export, government expenditure and terms of trade in the production process will be used as effective inputs. Inserting export was because of offering improvement of production technique training of skilled labor and work wild improvement was because of open economy and also inserting government spending and also terms of trade was because of dependence of government budget to oil and open economy of country. In the second model, economy will be divided to, two sectors of export and non – export that each of these sectors has a separate production function. In this model growth not only occurs because of labor and capital in export sector but also reallocation of resources from non – export sector to export sector will be effective in growth. In both models there is a positive and significant relation between export and economic growth. In both models Bruesch-Godfrey statistic indicates to the lack of serial correlation between residual terms also Bruesch-Pagan-Godfrey statistic indicates to lack of infinite consistency residual term variance.
