We study the design of contracts that incentivize experts to collect information and truthfully report it a decision maker. depart from most previous literature by assuming transfers cannot depend on realized state or ex post payoff The contract thus has induce “monitor each other” making contingent entire vector reports. characterize least costly implements any given efforts derive cost functi...

We consider a cross-calibration test of predictions by multiple potential experts in a stochastic environment. This test checks whether each expert is calibrated conditional on the predictions made by other experts. We show that this test is good in the sense that a true expert—one informed of the true distribution of the process—is guaranteed to pass the test no matter what the other potential...

Sistan region is one of the most important agricultural areas in the province of Sistan and Baluchistan. Therefore, given the heterogeneity in agriculture and recognizing these differences, the aim of this study was to obtain the level of development of agriculture in the Sistan region. To obtain this purpose two Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and the numerical taxonomy was used in a...

this descriptive correlational research sought to examine generic competencies required for university graduates from the points of view of agricultural engineers and mangers in kermanshah province. the study concentrated on the population of public agricultural managers (n= 130) as well as agricultural engineers (who were members of agricultural engineering system organization) in kermanshah p...

this research has been done with the main goal of assessing job satisfaction among the experts engaged at the agricultural engineering and technical consulting services companies in kermanshah, applying a descriptive- correlational method. the study population consisted of 388 experts of consulting service companies active in 10 rural districts in the township of kermanshah from whom 179 were r...

the main purpose of this survey was to assess research-oriented competencies (systematic inquiry and situational analysis competencies) needed by experts and evaluators in the ministry of jihad-e agriculture. a survey method was employed and data collected through questionnaire the reliability of which was approved through a pilot test with cronbach's coefficient alpha=0.97. validity of th...

abstract the overall purpose in this study was to investigate extensional- educational factors that influencing on transgenic plants usage. the research design of the study was a survey utilizing descriptive-correlation technique. the target population consisted of 85 biotechnology experts at research institutes of tehran province which were studied by a census study (n=85). finally 63 experts ...