@article{Siddiqi:229607, recid = {229607}, author = {Siddiqi, Hammad}, title = {Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic: A Unified Explanation for Asset-Return Puzzles}, address = {2016-01}, number = {1744-2016-140880}, series = {Finance}, pages = {32}, year = {2016}, abstract = {I model a scenario in which investors do not know the payoff distributions of relatively newer firms and use the payoff distribution of similar well-established firms as starting points. The starting distributions are then adjusted for size, volatility, and other differences. Anchoring bias implies that such adjustments typically fall short. I show that incorporating such anchoring and adjustment heuristic into the standard consumption-based capital asset pricing model provides a unified explanation for 9 asset pricing puzzles including the equity premium puzzle. The anchoring approach achieves these explanations while maintaining the tractable framework of a representative agent with time-additive and isoelastic preferences in a complete market.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/229607}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.229607}, }