The Impact of Domestic Currency Depreciation on the Bilateral Trade Balance of Iran with her Six Major Trading Partners

This study empirically analyses bilateral J-curve dynamics of Iran with her six trading partners using time series data over the period 1979 - 2005. Short and long - run impacts of the depreciation of Iranian Rial on the trade balance between Iran and her six trading partners are estimated by using Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Approach and Error Correction Model (ECM). The empirical results indicate that there is J-curve effect in the short-run between Iran with China and UAE, but in the long - run, the real depreciation of the Iranian Rial has positive impact on trade balance with UAE. The stability of the long-run trade balance equations are tested by using CUSUM and CUSUMSQ stability tests.