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Oil price shocks, global economic policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk, and stock price in Malaysia: Factor augmented VAR approach

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Pages 3700-3732 | Received 30 Jul 2018, Accepted 12 Sep 2019, Published online: 16 Oct 2019

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