Analysis of Ecuadorian Companies’ Access to Financial Resources in the Context of the COVID-19 Sanitary Emergency and the Performance of Economic Areas

Abstract

This article is developed within the context of the COVID 19 health epidemic, with the purpose of exploring the probability of access to credit in financial institutions properly registered by the Superintendency of Banks and the Superintendency of Popular and Solidarity Economy, using data from the 2019 Structured Business Survey and by means of logistic probability analysis in the economic sectors, being the commercial and manufacturing sectors those most likely to have access to credit, making them financially susceptible to the critical effects of the measures to contain the pandemic, being necessary to take measures ranging from governmental policies to the administrative policies of the company to mitigate the consequences.