The Analysis of the Demand unction of Import in Iranian conomy for the Period, 1353-86

This fact has ever been proved that involving in global markets does have its own potential advantages for developing countries, especially in 4 recent decades. Monopolizing the oil exporting and controlling the main parts of foreign trade by government sector in Iran, has led to a problematic circumstances in Iranian economy. Hitherto, this paper is going to investigate the demand function of import in Iranian economy by employing auto regression model for a 33 years period (1974-2007, equivalent to 1353-1386). In this study the impact of GDP, both with and without petroleum has been analyzed. One result of this research indicates that the relationship of GDP without petroleum and oil revenue from one hand and the Iranian import from other side is positive. Nevertheless the impact of relative prices on import is negative.