Impacto del desarrollo de la producción sobre las exportaciones de pitahaya del Ecuador en el periodo 2015 - 2018.

Abstract

It was thought about this project because currently most of the exports are based on banana and flowers, but non-traditional fruits have been increasing in the last years, the trends lead to growing demand in international market, in this research it analyses export behavior through examination of factor affecting performance in Ecuador using a time series data for the period between 2015 and 2018, specifically, it analyzed the influence of factors such as, private credit, demand, trade openness and inflation on exports of pitahaya. To estimate the relation between export and its determinants, it started with descriptive analysis and then it used a multiple linear regression to explain how some variables has some effect over the pitahaya exports from Ecuador in stata software, our demands are United States and France. As a result, it obtains that inflation, trade openness and demand have certain significance on the pitahaya exports in the model with United States. But in the other model with France market, the trade agreement was not meaning on the exports. Also, it concluded what determines the performance of exports varies across countries, regions and commodities.