<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Does the uptick rule inflate stock prices? Miller (1977) hypothesizes that short sale constraints lead to stock overvaluation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this paper I test this hypothesis in a power setting in which the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) suspended the uptick rule for a pre-chosen set of stocks (pilot stocks) in 2005.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The results suggest that on the NYSE the suspension of the uptick rule mitigates stock overvaluation and brings stock prices closer to their fundamental values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the NASDAQ, however, lifting the uptick rule goes beyond correcting stock overvaluation; it leads to stock undervaluation. The results are robust after controlling for other factors, such as firm size, book-to-market ratio, stock return momentum, and availability of exchange-traded-options. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>