The Role of Financial Development in Converting Natural Resource Rents into Foreign Capital in Iran

• Main Authors: Farzaneh Ahmadian Yazdi, Mohammad Ali Aboutorabi
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2019-07-01
• Series: Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī
• Subjects: financial development natural resource rents foreign capital rolling regression
• Online Access: http://joer.atu.ac.ir/article_10768_81b54a73778d63396908fbfee5001f95.pdf

Financial development is a key determinant of economic growth and development. This is more important in the case of resource-rich developing countries; because if they achieve high level of financial development, they will get benefit from resources in order to access sustainable growth and development. With regard to importance of this issue, the impact of financial development on conversion of natural resource rents into foreign capital in Iran has been studied during 1970-2014. The results of our ARDL model show that natural resources have positive effect on foreign capital in both short-run and long-run. Also, the results of rolling ARDL regression in the case of multi-dimension financial development index indicate that financial development has failed to materialize its potential effect to improve the impact of natural resources on foreign capital accumulation in both short-run and long-run. The outcome of regression based on single-dimension financial development indices suggests that some of these indices have been able to increase the positive effect of natural resources on foreign capital accumulation. However, there are no observable beneficial effects in the long-run. It seems that the lack of attention to financial development channels such as foreign financial liberalization, as well as financial repression during a long period of time, has been the main cause of this phenomenon in Iran.