Miller's hypothesis posits that divergence of opinion can lead to asset overvaluation and subsequent long-term underperformance in markets (such as initial public offerings [IPOs]) with restricted short-selling. Consistent with this hypothesis, we find that early-market return volatility, a...

Using order data for the Saudi Stock Market (SSM), we employ a new specification of an existing vector autoregressive (VAR) model to assess the information content of a newly submitted order. As predicted by the asymmetric information models, we find that larger and more aggressive orders are...