Elena Fernández-Rodríguez

Elena Fernández-Rodríguez
  • PhD
  • Professor (Associate) at University of Oviedo

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Introduction
I am Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Oviedo (Spain). My fields of expertise are corporate income tax, tax avoidance, earnings management, and taxation and sustainability.
Current institution
University of Oviedo
Current position
  • Professor (Associate)
Additional affiliations
October 1997 - June 2021
University of Oviedo
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
Description
  • I am associate professor of accounting at the University of Oviedo (Spain). My fields of expertise are corporate income tax, tax avoidance, earnings management, and taxation and sustainability.
Education
October 1995 - July 1997
University of Oviedo
Field of study
  • Business Administration (Extraordinary Award)
October 1992 - July 1995
University of Oviedo
Field of study
  • Accounting and auditing (Extraordinary Award)

Publications

Publications (63)
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In this study, we investigate the relationship between tax avoidance and earnings management in the largest five European Union economies by using artificial neural network regressions. This methodology allows us to deal with nonlinearities detected in the data, which is the principal contribution to the previous literature. We analyzed Compustat d...
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This paper studies the determinants of Effective Tax Rate (ETR) in emerging economies from a joint perspective, focusing on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) countries. We consider both traditional business characteristics (size, leverage, asset composition and profitability)...
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The corporate income tax is permanently under debate in recent decades with respect to coordination and competition issues, including the race-to-the-bottom hypothesis, and the effects on investment and economic growth of such a distortionary tax. In this paper we study the evolution of the effective corporate tax rates in the European Union throug...
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This paper examines the effect of state ownership on the effective tax rates of Spanish companies. Using information regarding 3169 companies during the period of 2008–2014, we show that there are significant differences between the tax burdens of non-state-owned enterprises (NSOEs) and state-owned enterprises (SOEs), with the effective tax rates o...
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Este trabajo analiza los factores determinantes del Tipo Impositivo Efectivo (TIE) soportado por empresas a nivel internacional, utilizando un panel de datos de 21.638 empresas cotizadas en 63 países durante el período 1999–2009. Nuestro análisis sugiere que el TIE depende tanto de factores empresariales como institucionales. En concreto, tamaño, e...
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This paper analyzes the determinants why a company presents tax losses. For this purpose, we use data on 119 listed companies in Spain during 2004-2011, four years previous to the financial crisis and another four after to the crisis, and we apply a logit model for panel data. The results indicate that the number of companies that generate tax loss...
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We investigate the relationship between the effective tax rate (E.T.R.) and company size in Germany to test tax planning–political power versus political cost theories. In contrast to most studies in this field, which use linear approximations, this paper uses a quantile regression approach. We use data from Compustat, corresponding to non-financia...
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Este trabajo analiza los factores determinantes del Tipo Impositivo Efectivo (TIE) soportado por las compañías cotizadas mexicanas por razón del impuesto sobre beneficios. Para ello, se utiliza un panel de datos extraídos de la base de datos Compustat correspondiente a 79 empresas durante el período 19922009 y se aplica el estimador del método gene...
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This sarticle studies the ICAC Resolution of February, 9th 20 7 6 concerning to the accounting of corporate income tax. This regulation cámandatory for all companies, for the preparation of their individual and consolidated Annual Accounts for fiscal years beginning after January, 7st 2075, despite being approved in 2076. In our opinion, this Resol...
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This paper analyses the determinants of the Effective Tax Rate (ETR) for the Mexican listed companies caused by Corporate Income Tax. For this, we use a panel of data extracted from the database Compustat corresponding to 79 companies during the period 1992 to 2009 and we apply the estimator of the generalized method of moments in first differences...
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La finalidad principal de este trabajo es analizar la variación que han tenido las diferencias entre Contabilidad y Fiscalidad tras la implantación de los Planes Contables de 2007, constituyendo también un objetivo adicional valorar si la reforma contable ha resultado neutral para las empresas españolas. Para llevar a cabo este estudio se analizan...
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Este trabajo analiza los factores condicionantes de las diferencias temporarias que surgen por la distinta imputación temporal de ingresos y gastos al resultado contable y fiscal. Para realizar el estudio se utiliza un panel de datos relativos a 119 sociedades cotizadas en España durante 2004-2011, aplicando el método generalizado de los momentos....
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In this work we study the determinants of the effective tax rates for corporate taxation in countries of the European Union. First, we carry out an exhaustive review of the empirical literature where no consensus is reached about the signs of the determinants and we can observe that in the case of the European countries this topic has scarcely rece...
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For those countries with a corporation tax, there are differences between the statutory tax rate set by the government and the effective tax rate paid by companies. Using a sample of 21,693 listed non-financial firms from 76 countries during the period 1999-2009, the study shows that the geographical scope, the level of development, membership of t...
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In this paper, we study the determinants of the effective tax rate (ETR) for corporate taxation for listed companies in the BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. We use a panel of 3,565 companies over the period 2000-2009, and we apply the generalized method of moments estimator for dynamic panel data. The results show that the ETR for...
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We investigate the determinants of the effective tax rates in the corporate taxation in Spain. From the database Compustat and the period 1992-2009, the quantile regressions estimations reveal different effects of key factors as the size, the composition of the assets and the returns on assets on the effective corporate tax rate depending on the pa...
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This article conducts a comparative analysis of the tax burden for listed companies in China and the United States and studies the factors that determine the effective tax rate (ETR). Information from the financial statements of sample companies in the Datastream/Worldscope database is used to calculate the corporate tax burden in these two geograp...
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This paper carries out a comparative analysis of the tax burden borne by listed companies in the United States of America and the European Union, and of the determinants of the Effective Tax Rate (ETR). A sample of companies was drawn up from the Datastream/Worldscope database over the period 1995-2007. By applying panel data estimation procedures,...
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The main aim of this paper has been to analyse the tax burden exerted by Corporate Income Tax (CIT) on European Union (EU) companies using the effective tax rate (ETR) as a tool for analysis. For this purpose, a sample of listed companies in the EU was extracted from the Datastream/Worldscope database for the period 1995–2005. This analysis allowed...
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This study analyzes the determinants of the Effective Tax Rate (ETR) for the Spanish banking sector caused by Corporate Income Tax, using a data panel of 55 banks and 51 savings banks over the period 1993-2004. The results show that the ETR borne by banking entities is ten percentage points lower than the general tax rate. Our analysis shows that t...
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La empresa familiar es un caso particular de estructura de propiedad concentrada, exhibiendo características propias y claramente diferenciadas de las empresas no familiares. La hipótesis que contrastamos empíricamente en este trabajo es que las empresas familiares también adoptan una actitud diferenciada frente a los impuestos, ya que su distinta...
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RESUMEN El presente trabajo analiza los factores determinantes del Tipo Impositivo Efectivo (TIE) soportado en el sector bancario español por razón del Impuesto sobre Sociedades, utilizando un panel de datos de 55 bancos y 51 cajas de ahorros durante el período 1993–2004. Los resultados muestran que el TIE soportado por las entidades bancarias es d...
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The main aim of this article is to analyse the tax burden exerted by the Corporate Income Tax on companies from different countries using the Effective Tax Rate (ETR) as a tool of analysis. For this purpose, a sample of listed companies was extracted from the Datastream database for the period 1995–2005. The results show some differences between th...
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Se propone un caso práctico a través del cual se pueda comprender el novedoso reflejo contable del IS introducido por el PGC y el PGC de pymes. El supuesto práctico ha sido realizado con la idea de facilitar su aplicación, y que, además, permita familiarizarse con el nuevo enfoque del balance, consecuencia directa de la adaptación a la Norma Intern...
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El objetivo principal de este trabajo consiste en analizar la presión fiscal, medida a través del Tipo Impositivo Efectivo, que soportan por Impuesto sobre Sociedades las empresas de los países de la Unión Europea. Para ello se utiliza una muestra de sociedades con cotización en Bolsa domiciliadas en los diferentes países comunitarios, extraída de...
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La finalidad de este trabajo es analizar la presión fiscal de las empresas españolas por razón del Impuesto sobre Sociedades, tanto para el conjunto nacional como por sectores de actividad. Para tal cometido se parte de los datos publicados por la Agencia Estatal de la Administración Tributaria (AEAT) para el período 1998-2003, utilizando como herr...
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El trabajo tiene su fundamento en la reforma fiscal experimentada por el Impuesto sobre Sociedades a partir de la aprobación de la Ley 35/2006. En concreto, se centra en el análisis de las principales repercusiones que tendrá sobre la contabilidad de las empresas el cambio que entre 2007-2008 experimentarán los tipos impositivos del tributo. Efecti...
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Este trabajo tiene como finalidad estudiar las diferencias que en la práctica empresarial se producen entre Contabilidad¿Fiscalidad, así como determinar la presión tributaria de las sociedades españolas. Para tal cometido se lleva a cabo un análisis descriptivo e inferencial, mediante técnicas no paramétricas, a partir de los datos publicados por l...
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Las actividades de investigación y desarrollo (I+D) constituyen en la actualidad un factor estratégico de primera magnitud. No obstante, en España no existe una conciencia generalizada de la necesidad de invertir en I+D de forma intensiva y continuada. Desde los organismos públicos se intenta paliar esta situación, siendo una de las principales vía...
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El presente trabajo pretende determinar cuáles son las principales variables explicativas de la presión fiscal empresarial española, debido al indudable interés que tiene su conocimiento para la toma determinadas decisiones empresariales, sobre todo, de inversión y financiación. A tal fin se analiza la información suministrada por las cuentas anual...
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This paper aims to explain the main determining factors of the Spanish business tax burden due to the undeniable interest that such information holds for those making business decisions, above all in the areas of investment and financing. The information supplied by the companies' annual accounts, which where quoted on the Stock Exchange from 1993-...
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El presente trabajo tiene por objeto realizar un análisis de las principales características de cada Estado miembro de la Unión Europea en materia de amortización del activo fijo, desde una doble perspectiva, contable y fiscal, al objeto de detectar el grado de armonización alcanzado por cada una de las dos disciplinas en este tema. Pues bien, las...
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El presente trabajo tiene por objeto llevar a cabo un análisis, tanto desde un punto de vista teórico como práctico, de los ajustes por correcciones valorativas a los que se tienen que enfrentar las empresas al realizar la liquidación del Impuesto sobre Sociedades, motivados por las discrepancias existentes entre los contextos fiscal y contable; en...

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