Estimación de la Función de Importaciones de Ecuador en el Periodo 1976-2015
During the last years, Ecuador has come presenting a deficit in the Trade balance, due to the excess of imports that has presented the country. Down this context raised the present work investigative so called “Estimation of the function of imports of Ecuador, period 1976 – 2015”, with the intention of estimating an imports function for the Ecuador given the theory of the imports. In turn, it was a question of a research work of descriptive character and econometric, in order to explain to the behavior of the imports of the country. The secondary information of the present investigation took of the database of the World Bank and of the Central Bank of the Ecuador (BCE). From the above mentioned function, the results that were obtained of the work investigative indicated that the GDP, it is an excellent indicator of the imports because, on having increased the Internal Product Gross (GDP), the Imports of the Ecuador increase in 0,35 dollars, also this one has a positive relation with the real Exchange rate, because, on having increased the TCRE (effective real Exchange rate), the imports increase in 0,13 %.