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Investigating the short‐selling regulation of the Hong Kong market, we document that shortable stocks, on average, earn significantly higher returns than non‐shortable stocks. However, loadings of stocks/portfolios on the shortable minus non‐shortable misvaluation factor SMN predict a significant negative return premium in the cross‐section of returns. We measure SMN by applying both value‐ and return‐weighted...