Abstract

MORENO AYALA, José Gerardo. Municipal Fiscal Clusters in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area in 2015. Rev.fac.cienc.econ. [online]. 2020, vol.28, n.1, pp.89-106.  Epub Nov 24, 2020. ISSN 0121-6805.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rfce.4508.

Metropolitan areas are the urban hub of contemporary global capitalism. Without detriment to their status as crucial nodes of the capitalist economic, political, and technological system, they are fragmented territories. Local governments, which manage metropolitan areas, face challenges that require knowledge of their fiscal conditions. The objectives of the study for the Monterrey Metropolitan Area (mma) are a) to analyze the mma municipal revenue structure; b) to determine its autonomous fiscal capacity and dependence on federal transfers, and c) to build municipal hierarchical clusters based on the variables of autonomous fiscal capacity, fiscal dependence, indebtedness capacity, and total fiscal capacity of metropolitan municipalities. The method used is quantitative and supported by the statistical technique of hierarchical cluster analysis. The results achieved are a) financial dependence on federal transfers determines the most important and worrying feature of the finance profile of metropolitan municipalities; b) federal transfers are the item of revenue that has considerably increased the fiscal capacity of municipalities and contributed to reducing their intra-metropolitan fiscal differences, and c) the autonomous tax capacities of municipalities are the item of revenue that causes greater inequality among metropolitan municipalities.

Keywords : municipal finances; fiscal autonomy and dependency; fiscal centralism.

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