Investigating factors affecting export price volatility of Iran's date

the purpose of this study is investigation of the factors affecting price volatility for Iran's date. In order to investigate the factors affecting price volatility export of Iran's date has been used approach (ARDL) for 1949-2014. Among all of the variables, years of sanction and number of main target countries are significant at level of 5 percent and share of main target country is significant at the level of 10 percent. With increasing one percent in the number of main target countries, Iran's export prices will be increased in about 0.742 percent. Variable of share in main target country has negative effect on Iran's export prices. Diversity of Iran's export markets with reducing reliance of Iran's export to the main target country and more uniform distribution of export share among other target countries, creates the fewer price volatility of Iran's date export. So paying attention to the diversification of the target markets of date export with the aim of reducing Iran's price volatility in world markets will be necessary.