In the US, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has pushed most public companies to defer performance bonuses for senior executives by about a year, slightly helping reduce " short-termism."

2002年，美国通过萨班斯-奥克斯利法案，要求上市公司对公司高层的绩效工资延迟一年左右发放，这在一定程度上遏制了 “短期效益主义”。