The Effects of Real Effective Exchange Rate on Exports of Iranian Caviar

Order to increase the exchange rate may not always promote exports and the rate of export of goods, have different reactions. Hence, this study has attempted to examine the effect of real effective exchange rate on exports of Iranian caviar. Therefore, using the auto-regressive distributed lag method, supply function of Iranian caviar export was estimated. The required data and Information for the period of 1974-2011 were gathered from Foreign Trade Statistical Yearbook of Iran, Statistical Yearbook of the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and various publications of the Central Bank of Iran. The results of this study indicated that domestic production of caviar, a significant and positive effect on the export of this product, but income variables of importing countries and the real exchange rate on exports of the product were ineffective