La incidencia del crecimiento económico en el comportamiento de las importaciones del Ecuador: período 2000-2013

Abstract

This research project studies the incidence of economic growth in the behavior of imports from Ecuador for the period 2000-2013. To this end, it did i) an analysis of the evolution and structure of the macroeconomic variables that compose the GDP from the expenditure approach and ii) estimating the functions Indispensable Imports and Unnecessary Imports by applying the Vector Error Correction Model, which establishes a long-term relationship between the Household Final Consumption, General Government Final Consumption, Gross Capital Formation and Exports of Goods and Services with Unnecessary and Indispensables Imports, respectively. The results show that economic growth determines the increase in foreign purchases Unnecessary and Indispensable.