This paper attempts to investigate the causal relationship among CO2 emissions and economic growth for Iranian economy. The sample period covered annual data during 1965-2004. By applying the techniques of unit-root test and the long-run Granger non-causality test proposed by Toda and Yamamoto...

The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of trade liberalization on economic growth in Iranian economy using a Cobb-Douglas production function, which is expanded to take into account political instability and trade liberalization. The empirical results show that in the long run the...

This paper examines the major determinants of GDP growth in Iran using annual time series data spanning from 1960 to 2003. The Iranian economy has been subject to a multitude of structural changes and regime shifts during the sample period. Thus, time series properties of the data are first...