The displacement of the sources of value aggregation in the Ecuadorian hard corn chain

Abstract

This study determines the displacement in the sources of value aggregation in Ecuador according to the logic of the "smile aggregate curve" that receives the induced alterations between the sources and productive inputs. Based on the cost accounts of the different producers involved in the hard yellow corn chain, this Study determines those variations through a cross-sectional estimate. Evidence of important displacements is found according to the shape that Baldwin et. al., detected between 1985-1995 in several Asian countries and not so much those that is subsequently observed between 1995-2005, when emerges the consolidation of a process of outsourcing of production.

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