The Relationship between Total FactorProductivity and Oil Growth

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.