Uma avaliação empírica do tamanho ótimo dos municípios

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Kilson, Anna Rita Scott
• Orientador(a): Moreira, Tito Belchior Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Católica de Brasília
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa Stricto Sensu em Políticas Públicas
• Departamento: Escola de Humanidades, Negócios e Direito
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Municípios; Federalismo fiscal; Despesas públicas
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Public expenditure; Fiscal federalism
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA::POLITICAS PUBLICAS
• Link de acesso: https://bdtd.ucb.br:8443/jspui/handle/tede/2817

This research aims to carry out an empirical investigation on the optimal size of the municipalities, that is, the number of inhabitants that offers the lowest level of expenditure in relation to the municipal GDP, obtaining an economic scale to provide the best level of public resources. This study analyzes a sample of data from 4,810 municipalities with a population of less than 50,000 inhabitants, which represent 89% of the total Brazilian municipalities. The database gathers information on municipal revenues and expenses, extracted from Finance of Brazil - Accounting Data of Municipalities - FINBRA 2010 and socioeconomic data from the 2010 IBGE Demographic Census. The outcomes showed that the optimal population size for a Brazilian municipality is equivalent to 31.667 inhabitants per city, based on Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) with robust standards errors. This population size provides gains of scale in public administration and improve local autonomy in relation to the central government to offer quality public goods.