The Impact of Allocated Credits and Banking Profit Rate on Private Investment in Iran

The present paper presents the effects of variations, that is to say bank credits and banking profit rate on private investment in different sectors such as agriculture, industry & mine and building. Flexible acceleration model and auto-regressive distributed lag model (ARDL) in 1352-1386 periods is applied here. Findings demonstrate that bank credits in all sectors have positive and significant effect, and real interest rate for bank credits has negative and meaningful effect. Results of the two variations show private investment has the biggest elasticity in relation with bank credits in industrial and mine sector, and this represent the dependency of this sector on bank credits than on the others.
In the same order, private investment has the biggest elasticity in relation with real bank interest rate in agriculture sector.