Robert Daines

Stanford Law School

Pritzker Professor of Law and Business

559 Nathan Abbott Way

Stanford, CA 94305-8610

United States

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Professor of Finance (by courtesy)

655 Knight Way

Stanford, CA 94305-5015

United States

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Rue Ducale 1 Hertogsstraat

1000 Brussels

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The Good, the Bad and the Lucky: CEO Pay and Skill

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The Good, the Bad and the Lucky: CEO Pay and Skill

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Nov 2004
Robert Daines, Robert Daines, Vinay B. Nair and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and New York University School of Law
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Executive Compensation, Governance, CEO

The Good, the Bad and the Lucky: CEO Pay and Skill

NYU Working Paper No. CLB-06-005, Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 32
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 31 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2013
Robert Daines, Robert Daines, Vinay B. Nair and Lewis A. Kornhauser
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and New York University School of Law
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Rating the Ratings: How Good are Commercial Governance Ratings?

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 360, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 1, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 98, No. 3, 2010
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 27 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2017
Robert Daines, Robert Daines, Ian D. Gow and David F. Larcker
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School, University of Melbourne - Department of Accounting and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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corporate governance, governance ratings

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Do IPO Charters Maximize Firm Value? Antitakeover Protection in Ipos

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Do IPO Charters Maximize Firm Value? Antitakeover Protection in Ipos

New York University Center for Law and Business Working Paper No. 99-015; and Stanford Law School John M. Olin Law and Economics Working Paper No. 184
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 24 Feb 2000
Robert Daines, Robert Daines and Michael Klausner
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School and Stanford Law School
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Do IPO Charters Maximize Firm Value? Antitakeover Protection in Ipos

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 17, pp. 83-120, 2001
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Nov 2005
Robert Daines, Robert Daines and Michael Klausner
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School and Stanford Law School
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Does Delaware Law Improve Firm Value?

NYU Law School, Center for Law and Business, Paper No. 99-011; and Columbia Law School, Center for Studies in Law and Economics, Paper No. 159
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 29 Feb 2000
Robert Daines and Robert Daines
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School
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Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts

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Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts

Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 16-105, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 498, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 499/2017, Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 10 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2021
Robert Daines, Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li and Charles C. Y. Wang
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Staggered board; Entrenchment; Life-cycle; Tobin's Q; Investments; Innovation; Profitability; Institutional investors; Investor composition

Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 568
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2022
Robert Daines, Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li and Charles C. Y. Wang
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Staggered board, Life-cycle, Tobin’s Q, Investments, Innovation, Investor composition

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Agents Protecting Agents: An Empirical Study of Takeover Defenses in Spinoffs

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 299
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Mar 2005
Robert Daines, Robert Daines and Michael Klausner
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School and Stanford Law School
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Corporate Governance, spinoff, takeover defenses, takeovers

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Pornography and Divorce

7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2013
Tyler Shumway, Robert Daines and Robert Daines
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School
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Right on Schedule: CEO Option Grants and Opportunism

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2016
Robert Daines, Robert Daines, Grant Richard McQueen and Robert J. Schonlau
Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford Law School, Brigham Young University - Department of Business Management and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Finance & Real Estate
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Executive compensation, Stock options, Corporate governance, CEO pay, Option backdating, Stock price manipulation