Assessment of the Impact of Economic Sanctions on the Efficiency of Iranian Banks

The assessment of the Iranian economy shows that banks play the role of Iran's economic artery and economic sanctions have also targeted Iran's economy arteries over the past decade. Therefore, evaluation the performance of Iranian banks and the impact of sanctions on this performance has a very important role in Future policies. This study aimed to Investigating the Performance and Impact of Sanctions on Iran's Banks in the period of 1395-1379. To evaluate this performance, have been used data envelopment analysis method and Bootstrap algorithm. The findings of the research show that the type of return to scale of the Iranian banking network has been constant during the mentioned time period and the Bootstrap algorithm has caused the realization and reduction of the average efficiency over the mentioned time period. With the Bootstrap algorithm applied during this period, the Iranian banks have not been fully efficiency at all years. The Bootstrap algorithm reduces the average performance by seven percent. The best performance of Iran's banks was in 2004 and the worst performance was in 2012 (the year of peak of sanctions). The assessment effect of sanction variable on the performance of the banking system shows that sanctions have a negative and significant effect on banking performance. So that a percent increase in sanctions level has caused the efficiency of the Iranian banks is reduced by 0.14 percent. In the regression estimation, applying the Bootstrap algorithm improves the t-statistic and the meaningful level of independent variables.