Today’s technology-driven human-society(s) country-wise are counted more than ever before where UAE-society is no exception. Tech-users here compete for comparative time-saving-options for marginalizing operating-cost. It has resulted huge data-usages, high-number of users & devices, which has...

The current paper examines the asymmetric effects of changes to monetary and fiscal variables on different types of firms in the UAE. We compute impulse responses based on local projections and select shock and switching variables using machine learning. We examine 180 firms listed in the UAE...

This paper expands the capital structure literature by investigating how ownership shareholdings and corporate governance influence the capital structure decisions within an emerging market context, namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Our sample includes firms listed in both Abu Dhabi and...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to look at the United Arab Emirates' (UAE's) progress toward economic diversification and becoming a knowledge-based economy. Design/methodology/approach - The World Development Indicators (WDI) and GlobalEconomy websites provided all secondary data for...

In 2019-2020, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) introduced a historic package of legal reforms aimed at strengthening women's economic participation, in line with its national policy commitment to gender balance. The reforms signified a major milestone for the region, introducing paid parental...

This paper investigates the impact of 19 announcements relating to the introduction of value-added tax (VAT) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on the equities listed on Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange (ADX). Using a well-established event study methodology applied on daily data over the period from...