We model an IPO company's optimal response to the presence of sentiment investors andshort sale constraints. Given regulatory constraints on price discrimination, the optimal mech-anism involves the issuer allocating stock to `regular' institutional investors for subsequentresale to sentiment...

We model an IPO company's optimal response to the presence of sentiment investors. "Regular" investors are allocated stock that they subsequently sell to sentiment investors. Because sentiment demand may disappear prematurely, carrying IPO stock in inventory is risky, so for regulars to break...

Our model of the initial public offering process links the three main empirical IPO ‘anomalies’ – underpricing, hot issue markets, and long-run underperformance – and traces them to a common source of inefficiency. We relate hot IPO markets (such as the 1999/2000 market for Internet...