Unlocking the mergers and acquisitions puzzle in the United Arab Emirates: Investigating the impact of corporate leverage on target selection and payment methods

• Moataz Elmassri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Moataz Elmassri, Tariq Z. Elrazaz, Yousry Ahmed

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Accounting Department, College of Business and Economics, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, Accounting Department, Faculty of Commerce, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

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• Tariq Z. Elrazaz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Moataz Elmassri, Tariq Z. Elrazaz, Yousry Ahmed

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: telrazaz@uaeu.ac.ae

  Affiliation Accounting Department, College of Business and Economics, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4264-7000

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• Yousry Ahmed

  Contributed equally to this work with: Moataz Elmassri, Tariq Z. Elrazaz, Yousry Ahmed

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Accounting and Finance Department, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Business Administration Department, Faculty of Commerce, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

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