Purpose This paper aims to investigate the determinants of capital structure for non-financial listed firms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the period 2004-2010. The contradiction between the different capital structure theories, limited literature on UAE and its distinctive characteristic...

The purpose of this research is to identify the capital structure decisions and the institutional factors pivotal in female owned SMEs in the United Arab Emirates. A survey questionnaire method was used to collect data from the local female entrepreneurs, and a factor analysis was conducted to...

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...

This review evaluates the four major theories of corporate financing: (1) the Modigliani–Miller theory of capital-structure irrelevance, in which firm values and real investment decisions are unaffected by financing; (2) the trade-off theory, in which firms balance the tax advantages of...