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Original Articles

Revisiting calendar effects in Malaysian finance stocks market: Evidence from threshold GARCH (TGARCH) model

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Pages 1377-1400 | Received 21 Feb 2017, Accepted 23 Jan 2018, Published online: 14 Feb 2018

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