Three essays on the Ecuador's economy

  1. Pacheco Delgado, Janeth Monserrate
Supervised by:
  1. Henry Ali Aray Casanova Director

Defence university: Universidad de Granada

Fecha de defensa: 08 March 2021

Committee:
  1. Ana I. Moro Egido Chair
  2. Juliette Milgram Baleix Secretary
  3. Daniel Balsalobre Lorente Committee member
  4. Luis Enrique Pedauga Sánchez Committee member
  5. Juan González Alegre Committee member

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 652407 DIALNET lock_openDIGIBUG editor

Abstract

This doctoral thesis presents three essays on the Ecuadorian’s economy. Its purpose is to study the dynamics of its growth and the factors that have played a key role. It also analyzes the allocation of public resources between the central and subnational governments, emphasizing compliance with the criteria of the efficiency and equity. To achieve the purpose of each essay, statistical information from official sources such as the Central Bank of Ecuador, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, the National Secretariat for Planning and Development and the Ministry of Economy and Finance has been used, to estimate the economic models proposed in each of the essays, so the contribution of this thesis is not only theoretical but also empirical