Socioeconomic Geography of Offshore Finance in Mexico

This paper explores the information contained in the Panama papers, whose relevance continues to be present since the revelation in 2016. The objective is to characterize the territorial structure of the main international financial flows that passed through Mexico, Through socio-spatial networks an...

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Authors: Tovar-Cabañas, Rodrigo, Márquez-Roa, Ubaldo, Herrera-Meza, Grecia
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2023
Country:Ecuador
Institution:Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Repository:Revista URVIO
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/5937
Online Access:https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/urvio/article/view/5937
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:papeles de Panamá
análisis de redes socioespaciales
paraísos fiscales
alcaldía Miguel Hidalgo
Panama papers
socio-spatial network analysis
tax havens
Miguel Hidalgo mayor's office
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Summary:This paper explores the information contained in the Panama papers, whose relevance continues to be present since the revelation in 2016. The objective is to characterize the territorial structure of the main international financial flows that passed through Mexico, Through socio-spatial networks analysis, the universe of study was limited to a thousand revelations. With the help of the logical tools of the Gephi software, it was possible to visualize the point clouds of the structure of offshore finance in Mexico. The study reveals that 36% of tax havens or offshore are carried out in the Miguel Hidalgo mayor's office of Mexico City, 8.8% correspond to the municipality of San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, while 5.3% correspond to the Cuajimalpa de Morelos mayor's office in Mexico City. Finally, it was possible to locate the main tax havens with which the offshore finance network of Mexico interacts.