The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has established itself as the medical device industry’s preferred regional center. Major multinational corporations either have a regional subsidiary or are planning to open up a principal office in the UAE to expand their business. Employees in the industry are...

This paper defines the Business English (BE) specialism, presents the implications for teaching BE and reports on empirical data collected from a cohort of pre-experience undergraduate students undertaking their first Business writing course in the UAE. The data was used to inform the design of...

The UAE ranks 1-st globally in Global Entrepreneurship Index 2022, which means that the state has a strong economic environment and flexible policies that ensure all the facilities and incentives necessary to attract and establish businesses and support their operations. Thus, the interest in...

This paper examines the spillover effects of the US economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the UAE stock market volatility. The empirical analysis is mainly conducted using a novel approach based on combining the Diebold and Yilmaz (2014) connectedness index with the time-varying parameter vector...

Germany and the EU plan to import hydrogen and its derivatives from the Arab Gulf states. Although Germany has signed a joint declaration of intent with the Sultanate of Oman to this end, its efforts focus primarily on Oman’s larger neighbours. However, it would be a mistake to overlook...

“Trade Policy Reviews" analyse the trade policies and practices of each member of the WTO. The reviews consist of three parts: an independent report by the WTO Secretariat, a report by the government, and the concluding remarks by the Chair of the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Body. The opening...

The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted the UAE's economy, while the declining oil prices have slashed any hopes of a timely recovery. In response, the government has deployed significant rescue packages, such as Targeted Economic Support Scheme (TESS). This paper argues that such stimulus packages...

Blended Learning (BL) as a teaching method has been conceived to be an efficient replacement for the conventional face-to-face teaching method. This is because it merges between student-instructor in-class interaction and the flexibility of learning outside the classroom’s place and time....

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...

Photovoltaic solar systems are widely used as a renewable energy resource worldwide due to the numerous negative impacts of the conventional-depleted energy resources. In the context of the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates has been a pioneer in regulating renewable energy and setting annual...

We conducted a randomized experiment of the impact of remittance labeling among Filipino migrant workers in the UAE. The ability to label remittances with the migrant’s intended uses leads migrants with low levels of baseline (pre-treatment) remittances to increase their remittance levels....

The present study has been conducted to examine the impact of seven of most important internal factors on stock prices for all listed banks in Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock markets. Pooled Least Square, Fixed Effects (FE), and Random Effects (RE) models have been used to carry out the analysis for...

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...

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...

The revolution of information and communication technology has been found to shape different sectors of the world. In the 21st century, the idea to administer and govern has gone through a radical transformation and has led to the adoption of new tools which would assist the government in its...

World economy, which showed relatively robust growth from the second half of 2010 to early 2011, has a slowdown due to the financial crisis in advanced countries, especially Greece and Italy. Retrenchment has become a common policy trend in response to rising oil price and inflationary concerns...

The rise in financial interdependence among financial markets around the world has created a competitive environment that challenges the role and performance of the financial sector. The UAE has been operating a fixed exchange rate regime and an open capital account since the mid-1990s. Against...

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...

Mobile technologies are one of the fastest-growing technologies in education. They offer an appealing opportunity to access multiple sources of information anytime and anywhere. Students who join Dubai Men's College in the Foundations program suffer from accumulative weakness in the language...

The aim of this paper is to measure the financial performance of six insurance companies operating in the UAE with the goal of comparing the performance between three Islamic and three conventional insurance companies during the financial crisis of 2008. The primary data source for the...

This paper aims to examine the impact of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance on the financial performance of UAE banks. The sample includes UAE banks over the period 2014-2019. The data show that the ESG performance is increasing over time. In addition, the empirical results...

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 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...

A swift policy response helped mitigate the economic impact of the twin COVID-19 and oil price shocks and contain the initial spread of the virus. A gradual recovery driven by the non-oil sector is underway, following a deep recession in 2020. Fiscal and external balances have improved with...

The present research paper focuses on four key aspects of organizational culture in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): employee attitude, performance, behavior, and productivity. Every organization has a unique culture, which shapes the employees’ perspectives to a large extent. The greater the...

In the last few years, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has emerged as a regional hub serving as an incubator of the FinTech ecosystem, where regulators began implementing policies to encourage the growth of Fintech ventures in 2017. However, detailed empirical evidence concerning the impact of...