Now we move the payoffs.

Finally, we changed the payoffs one more time.

The payoffs to innovation are greatest where the uncertainty is highest.

These payoffs to top executives were further increased by large bonus compensation.

Sensible rules promise big payoffs, given the current and long term global crisis in public finances.

The examples of Poland, Estonia, Sweden, and Germany, among others, demonstrate that early reforms can yield huge social payoffs.

Instead, we are being told of the purported economic payoffs, above all, the promise of so called green jobs.

A new study for the Copenhagen Consensus project shows that eliminating this disparity is an investment with high payoffs.

Supposing a jewel outfit got the idea of using a detective as a utility man... for contacts and payoffs.

Nigerian officials have become fabulously wealthy, owing to decades of payoffs by international companies that have plundered the delta s natural wealth.

Typically, these protests are local in nature and generally resolved with a combination of payoffs, arrests, and promises of future improvement.

Higher leverage increases their payoffs when times are good as executives and traders are paid based on their return on equity.

But tying executive payoffs to long term results does not provide a complete answer to the challenge facing firms and regulators.

He recently signed a lavish infrastructure bill that included, among other payoffs to political supporters, an infamous bridge to nowhere in Alaska.

The transition to decentralized decision making and management of forests is likely to be costly, and the payoffs may not materialize immediately.

They're not responding to payoffs as closely, and also if you study their learning in the game, they aren't as sensitive to previous rewards.

Our experience with shale gas, our experience with natural gas, shows us that the payoffs on these public investments don't always come right away.

It is important for financial firms and firms in general to reform compensation structures to ensure tighter alignment between executive payoffs and long term results.

The payoffs of such investments are, if anything, higher than they were then, given that many countries still have relatively weak economies that need stimulating.

Although the funder keeps the reduction in health care costs, the community gets all of the many payoffs from a healthier population including an enhanced reputation.

They're closer to 50 50. They're not responding to payoffs as closely, and also if you study their learning in the game, they aren't as sensitive to previous rewards.

If the international community is going to invest in a bold new public relations initiative, it might as well focus on areas where the potential payoffs are the greatest.

These trends move too slowly to make headlines, but cumulatively they offer a whole new world of bigger payoffs from public and private investment in agriculture and rural development.

But tying executive payoffs to long term results does not provide a complete answer to the challenge facing firms and regulators. The question still remains long term results for whom?

As the obstacles created by previous government policies and past population growth are gradually removed, adopting successful innovations will yield increasingly large payoffs and faster per capita growth over time.

In game theory, a symmetric game is a game where the payoffs for playing a particular strategy depend only on the other strategies employed, not on who is playing them.

These rules include appropriate temporary safety valves for recession, and some have super majority voting requirements. Sensible rules promise big payoffs, given the current and long term global crisis in public finances.

Today, going to work decreases the chance of divorce. In families where the wife has been employed longer, men tend to do more and better child care, with measurable payoffs in child outcomes.

To address this distortion, the payoffs of financial executives should be tied not to the long term value of their firms common shares but to the long term value of a broader basket of securities.

The inflow of foreign aid to boost agricultural production did not rise until after the world food crisis of the 1970 s, and it peaked in the late 1980 s, yielding payoffs some years later.

This is called the extensive inaudible game, where one player, who's player one, takes, makes some sort of decision and then another player, player two, takes some sort decision, and then the players get payoffs.

This might include such measures as the annualized volatility of the inflation adjusted ten year returns, and the range of real payoffs that an investment might earn in ten years, including 5th, 50th, and 95th percentiles.

To do so, executive payoffs could be made dependent on changes in the value of the banks credit default swaps, which reflect the probability that the bank will not have sufficient capital to meet its full obligations.

But, as Professor Richard Layard of the London School of Economics has argued in his recent book Happiness Lessons from a New Science , promoting friendship is often easy, cheap, and can have big payoffs in making people happier.

During the 30 months he ruled his country, from mid 1998 to the start of 2001, Estrada accepted payoffs from gambling lords and orchestrated (with social security funds) sales of stocks, channeling much of the profits into his personal aliased account.

There is absolutely no reason to let executives payoffs be based on the happenstance of the stock price on a single day, at best, much less on their ability to use their access to inside information or control over disclosures.

In addition to the excessive focus on short term results, a second important source of incentives to take excessive risks has thus far received little attention. The payoffs of financial sector executives were tied to highly leveraged bets on the value of their firms capital.

Equity based awards, coupled with the highly leveraged capital structure of banks, tie executives compensation to a leveraged bet on the value of banks assets. As Holger Spamann and I show in our research, executive payoffs should be tied to the long term value delivered not only to shareholders, but also to other contributors to banks capital.

The common shareholders in financial firms do not have an incentive to induce executives to take into account the losses that risks can impose on preferred shareholders, bondholders, depositors, and taxpayers. Consequently, governance improvements that make directors more focused on shareholder interests cannot be relied on to tie executive payoffs to the interests of shareholders and non shareholders alike.