Fear of mice in general. Fear of mice Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias. It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (from Greek "μῦς" "mouse") or murophobia (a coinage from the taxonomic adjective "murine" for the family Muridae that encompasses mice and rats), or as suriphobia, from French "souris", "mouse". The phobia, as an unreasonable and disproportionate fear, is distinct from reasonable concern about rats and mice contaminating food supplies, which may potentially be universal to all times, places, and cultures where stored grain attracts rodents, which then consume or contaminate the food supply. In many
Abnormal return where: AR - abnormal return for firm i on day t R - actual return for firm i on day t E(R) – expected return for firm i on day t A common practice is to standardise the abnormal returns with the use of the following formula: formula_3 where: SAR - standardised abnormal returns SD – standard deviation of the abnormal returns The SD is calculated with the use of the following formula: formula_4 where: S – the residual variance for firm i, R – the return on the stock market index on day t, R – the average return