Iranian Business Management Association International Journal of Resistive Economics 2345-4954 13 4 2025 11 01 The Role of Agricultural Commodity Exchange in Enhancing the Export Capacity of Iran Agricultural Sector 138 152 237471 10.22034/oajre.2025.560373.1169 EN Farshid Hadi PhD Student, Department of Economics, CT.C., Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. 0000-0001-9772-5988 Shahriar Nessabian Department of Economics, CT.C., Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran , Marjan Daman Keshideh Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, CT.C., Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 0000-0002-9615-0913 Farzin Arbabi Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, CT.C., Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. 0000-0002-1444-8362 Journal Article 2025 11 17 As a regulated financial institution, the Agricultural Commodity Exchange plays an important role in the agricultural sector's development by structuring the agricultural product market, lowering pricing risks, and enhancing transparency. In this paper, we used time series data from 2013 to 2023 to investigate the influence of the agriculture Commodity Exchange on enhancing Iran's agriculture sector's export capacity. Data were derived from the National Statistics Portal, the Ministry of Agriculture-Jahad, and the Iran Commodity Exchange website and were analyzed employing econometric methods including linear regression, vector autoregression (VAR), vector error correction model (VECM), impulse-response functions (IRF) and variance analysis. Findings indicate commodity exchange exerts a positive significant impact on agricultural sector exports capacity. This impact has been realized through product standardization, price fluctuations reduction, market transparency increases and better access to global markets. Yet the decline in agricultural goods volume sold on the stock exchange since 2018 underlines mass poverty and obstacles to product marketing from farmer distraction and producer ignorance. It is suggested that the export capacity of the agricultural sector be improved by developing infrastructure, educating farmers, and implementing targeted policies. https://www.oajre.ir/article_237471_b962ddf580b731a1c0bf4c39bcdab02f.pdf