The Agricultural Sector in Ecuador: Correlation Analysis between Utility, Market Share and Capital Structure

The research showed in this article has the objective to relate three groups of variables: per capita profit, market share and per capita capital structure; in order to display the correlation of each of these variables in 17 industries of the Ecuadorian agricultural sector. The data used for the an...

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Main Author: Arévalo-Chávez, Patricio (author)
Other Authors: Arévalo-Chávez, Freddy (author), Guadalupe-Lanas, Jorge (author), Palacio-Fierro, Andrés (author)
Format: article
Language:spa
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://revistas.ute.edu.ec/index.php/economia-y-negocios/article/view/430
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Summary:The research showed in this article has the objective to relate three groups of variables: per capita profit, market share and per capita capital structure; in order to display the correlation of each of these variables in 17 industries of the Ecuadorian agricultural sector. The data used for the analysis of this correlation were those published by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses INEC, corresponding to the last National Economic Census, carried out in 2010. The results show that there are significant correlations at levels of 1% and 5%, among the next variables: per capita profit and market share, additionally the variables per capita income and per capita capital structure, in the sectors of cereal cultivation (except rice), legumes and oilseeds, rice crops, tropical and subtropical fruit cultivation, fruit growing with bone and seed, and cultivation of spices and aromatic, medicinal and pharmaceutical plants.