Indeed, pay arrangements were a major contributing factor to the excessive risk-taking by financial institutions that helped bring about the financial crisis. By rewarding executives for risky behavior, and by insulating them from some of the adverse consequences of that behavior, pay arrangements for financial-sector bosses produced perverse incentives, encouraging them to gamble.
事实上，现存的薪酬安排是推动金融机构过度投机，从而导致本次金融危机爆发的一个主要诱因。金融机构通过激励高管从事高风险的交易而且不用承担这些行为导致的不利后果，对金融部门老板们的薪酬安排产生了不正常的激励，鼓励他们去赌博