Investigating the Impact of Economic Policies on the Government Budget Resilience Index in the Framework of a Dynamic Macroeconometric Model

Abstract

Iran’s economy is among the economies with low resilience and high vulnerability. Economic resilience refers to the ability to cope with various economic shocks and the extent of recovery after a crisis. Economic Resilience which means enduring the effects of shocks and recovering quickly from economic shocks and returning to pre-crisis functioning, can help make the economy more resilient. Because different markets are related to this sector in various ways, in the event of a crisis or external shock and instability in this sector other sectors are affected as well; making the need to pay more attention to the stability of the sector and, to a greater degree, its resilience apparent. The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies affecting the resilience of Iran's government budget sector. For this purpose, a macro econometric model was designed for the Iran’s economic. The policy variables used are legal reserve rate, banking system debt to the central bank, government construction budget, government oil revenue, deposit interest rate and official exchange rate and identified appropriate policies to increase the resilience index of the government budget sector by applying different scenarios. As well as the implementation of the combined scenario for the government budget sector resilience index shows a 53.61% increase in the average. The results showed that in the event of a shock, it is possible to prevent a sharp decline in the resilience index of the government budget sector by using a combination of economic policies.

Keywords

• government budget resilience
• vulnerability
• resilience index
• macro-econometric model