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Profit Sharing with <strong>Executive</strong>s<br />

that a top management with more power vis-à-vis shareholders and more powerful<br />

CEOs are able to capture a larger share of cash flows as cash b<strong>on</strong>uses for the top<br />

management team. If we follow Bebchuk et al. (2011) who find that CEO power is<br />

associated with agency problems resulting in inferior firm performance, our finding<br />

may imply agency problems in firms where the top management captures a large<br />

share of cash flows.<br />

This finding calls for further investigati<strong>on</strong> of the implicati<strong>on</strong>s from high managerial<br />

cash-flow participati<strong>on</strong>. Future research may analyze whether a higher cash-flow<br />

share captured by the top management is indeed negatively associated with firm performance<br />

or firm value and thus evidence for agency problems and managerial rent<br />

extracti<strong>on</strong>.<br />

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