Moghadasfar, S., Komeil Tayebi, S., Sharifi, A. (2017). The Size of Rent-seeking Activity in Iran's Foreign Trade Sector: An Application of the DSGE Approach. International Journal of Business and Development Studies, 9(2), 55-70. doi: 10.22111/ijbds.2017.3704
Samaneh Moghadasfar; Seyyed Komeil Tayebi; Alimorad Sharifi. "The Size of Rent-seeking Activity in Iran's Foreign Trade Sector: An Application of the DSGE Approach". International Journal of Business and Development Studies, 9, 2, 2017, 55-70. doi: 10.22111/ijbds.2017.3704
Moghadasfar, S., Komeil Tayebi, S., Sharifi, A. (2017). 'The Size of Rent-seeking Activity in Iran's Foreign Trade Sector: An Application of the DSGE Approach', International Journal of Business and Development Studies, 9(2), pp. 55-70. doi: 10.22111/ijbds.2017.3704
Moghadasfar, S., Komeil Tayebi, S., Sharifi, A. The Size of Rent-seeking Activity in Iran's Foreign Trade Sector: An Application of the DSGE Approach. International Journal of Business and Development Studies, 2017; 9(2): 55-70. doi: 10.22111/ijbds.2017.3704
The Size of Rent-seeking Activity in Iran's Foreign Trade Sector: An Application of the DSGE Approach
Rent-seeking in the trade sector is an outcome of restrictions imposed on tariffs and import quotas by a government. In an effort to acquire more privilege in foreign trade, labor allocates a part of its time-effort to rent-seeking activity, while cutting down on production work. Given the importance of rent-seeking activity due to restrictions imposed by the government in the Iranian economy, this paper has attempted to calculate the size of rent-seeking activity in the foreign trade sector of the Iranian economy. Hence, a version of the DSGE model has been specified and the related parameters have been estimated in order to calculate the rent-seeking rate. We have applied quarterly data from 1998:1 to 2015:4 for Iran’s trade sector, to obtain the empirical results through calibrating the specified DSGE model. The results have indicated that rent-seeking of Iran’s trade sectors amounted to 0.45, which looks considerably high. Moreover, labor has shared 24 % of its effort time to rent-seeking activity and 76 % to ordinary work.
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