Fiscal Policy Uncertainty and Industrial Investment in Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, University of Tabriz, Iran. E-mail: Safariomid2017@gmail.com.

2 Associate Professor of Economics, University of Tabriz, Iran. E-mail: Assadzadeh@gmail.com.

3 Professor of Economics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran.Email: Seyedhossein.mirjalili@gmail.com.

Abstract

Industrial investment in Iran, especially in the wake of sanctions’ intensification in the 2010s, decreased significantly. The government implemented fiscal policy which has been associated with uncertainty. In this paper, using a dynamic panel model and generalized method of moments, we examined the effect of fiscal policy uncertainty on investment in 24 industrial groups in Iran over the period 2002-2020. The results indicated that the growth of fiscal level shock,resulted in a low but positive effect on investment directly. However,the coefficient of cross effect between the growth of fiscal level shock and the fiscal policy uncertainty undermined the positive effect on industrial investment. The government has had two effects on industrial investment indirectly through the demand side shock. By creating demand, it has had a positive effect on industrial investment with the cross effect between the growth of the fiscal level shock and industrial sales. However, on the other hand, the growth of the fiscal level shock has been associated with the creation and growth of fiscal policy uncertainty, so that the cross effect between the growth of fiscal policy uncertainty and the growth of industrial sales on industrial investment shows a high negative coefficient. The results of these two effects suggest that due to high uncertainty,the indirect government effect on investment in 24 industrial groups is negative, which happens through the demand-side shock. Moreover, the growth of fiscal policy uncertainty, sanctions, and interest rates, respectively, have had the most adverse effect on investment in 24 industrial groups in Iran.

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International Journal of Business and Development Studies
Volume 16, Issue 1
March 2024
Pages 229-259

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