Studying the simultaneous effects of economic sanctions shocks on Iran's economic sectors

Basically, quantitative specification of sanction effects on economic sectors has undeniable importance to increase the buffering of nations’ economy against their negative effects. On the other hand, majority of estimated models in this field, have carried out through the entering the dummy variables and studying part of economy. Therefore, in this research the effects of economic sanctions was studied on Iran’s productive economic sectors using 4 criteria: 1. Oil export revenues shock, 2. Non-oil export shock, 3. Importing raw materials, capital and intermediate goods shock and 4. Exchange rate shock. For this purpose research data was gathered from Central Bank of Iran during 1988-2017. Also, in order to data analyzing, Structural Vector Auto-Regressive (SVAR) model and Impulse Response Functions (IRF) were applied. Results proved that economic sanctions reduce the value added of considered productive sectors. But effect of studied economic sanction criteria on considered productive sectors were diverse. So that between 4 studied economic sanction criteria respectively: exchange rate shock, Importing raw materials, capital and intermediate goods shock, non-oil export shock and Oil export revenues shock have the most negative effect on value added of considered sectors. In addition, value added of agriculture sector, value added of construction sector and value added of industry and mine sector, exposure with the least effect from the studied economic sanction criteria, respectively.