The Optimal System of Exchange for I.R. of Iran in a Resistance Economy Framework

Resistance economy is a new concept that has been introduced with escalating U.S.-West sanctions against Iran's economy. In other words resistance economy is a set of management methods for minimizing the vulnerability of the economy to numerous external and internal risks. One of the sectors of the Iran's economy that has always been vulnerable to risk is the exchange market. This paper considering the vulnerability of exchange system attempts to introduce optimal exchange system for Iran's economy by presenting and estimating models for the study of the pathology of the currency exchange system. We could argue that there is no real exchange market in Iran's economy, because there is not a micro based supply and demand factors in the exchange market. Based on our findings, the following measures are recommended: implementing economic policies to diversify exports of goods and services, reforming institutional structures and the technology of productive sectors, increasing efficiency of production factors, especially labor productivity, enhancing the competitiveness of goods and services produced in the Iran's economy and finally diversifying sources of exchange supply from oil and related products and non-oil. Following the formation of exchange system, this paper proposes a managed floating exchange system as optimal exchange system for Iran's economy.