The Study of Non-Oil Export and Foreign Direct Investment Effect

This research aims to study the effect of non-oil exports and foreign direct investment on GDP of Iran. In order to do this، using auto regressive distributed lag method and annual time series، data from 1978 to 2008 has been investigated. The results indicate that effectiveness of all variables coefficients have been in conformity with economic theories and in the long-run، non-oil exports and foreign direct investment would have positive and significant effects on economic growth. Also، the results of the error correction model indicate that in each annual period about 0/46 short run imbalances in achieving long run balance has been mitigated.