Sentence examples for private payoff from inspiring English sources

By increasing the private payoff to actions that confer benefits on others, it is possible to enhance the public good even if individuals act only in their private self-interest (Francis 1997; Sandler and Arce 2002).

In that impossible context, we shouldn't be so quick to condemn private "payoffs," which may create a cloud of suspicion and disrepute.

In only four cases, he said, citing education, highways, public sanitation and mass transit, does some public spending "have a higher level of payoff than private spending".

Their model demonstrates that mutual shirking imposes a more severe penalty than free exit rights, if the members' payoff from private production is higher than unilateral shirking in a cooperative team, whereas free exit rights could weaken the penalty because the shirking members can flee after shirking.

Investors have become more wary of IPOs with big payoffs for private equity firms.

In perhaps the most dramatic testimony thus far, a former secretary and mistress of Mr. Luxemburgo told of seeing her boss and other officials and agents meeting secretly to buy and sell the rights to players illegally in return for large payoffs to their private accounts.

Cuddling needy babies became the payoff for my private agony.

The film also considers the gap between public images and private lives, but its emotional payoff rests upon Jeff's willingness to assume his civic role and recognize its healing power.

We show how these results extend to a two-dimensional mechanism design setting where the agents have private information about their material payoff types and their reciprocity types.

The payoff-relevant decision problem was written on the cover page of the active person and the person was given the opportunity to take (in private) a look at her/his choice in the payoff-relevant decision problem.

John Powell was the Republican Party leader in Suffolk County, and was being mentioned as a candidate to head the party statewide, when he was charged in 1998 with extorting payoffs from a private trash hauler for landfill access, and with conspiring to traffic in stolen trucks.