The Relationship between Total FactorProductivity and Oil Growth

Volume 9, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring 2012
Pages 113-131

Document Type : Research Paper

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Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between productivity growth and oil growth during the period of 1981-2007. It first, reviews the theoretical and empirical a literature and measures productivity growth in Iranian oil sector. The paper also examines the causal link between productivity growth and oil growth in Iran using unit root and co- integration techniques within a bi-Variate Vector Auto – Regressive (bVAR) and Vector Error Correction (VEC) framework. The results revealed a positive relationship between productivity growth and oil growth in Iran. The causation is directed from productivity growth toward oil growth.
 
JEL Classification: Q16, C21, O30

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  • Receive Date 14 June 2014
  • First Publish Date 14 June 2014
  • Publish Date 20 March 2012