Effects of Whistle-Blowing Bans on Accidents at Gated Rail-Highway Crossings: The Northeastern Illinois Experience

Why has safety improved at rail-highway grade crossings?

The number of collisions and fatalities at rail-highway intersections in the United States has declined significantly over the past 30 years, despite considerable increases in the volume of rail and highway traffic. This article disaggregates the improvement into its constituent causes. Negative binomial regressions are conducted on a pooled data set for 49 states from 1975 to 2001. The analysi...

Why has Safety Improved at Rail-Highway Grade Crossings? by

The number of collisions and fatalities at rail-highway intersections in the United States has declined significantly over the past thirty years, despite considerable increases in the volume of rail and highway traffic. This paper disaggregates the improvement into its constituent causes. Negative binomial regressions are conducted on a pooled data set for 49 states from 1975 to 2001. The analy...

An Investigation of Motor Vehicle Driver Inattention and Its Effects at Highway-rail Grade Crossings

Blowing the Whistle

Leniency clauses, offering cartelists legal immunity if they blow the whistle on each other, is a recent anti-trust innovation. The authorities wish to thwart cartels and promote competition. This effect is not evident, however; whistle-blowing may enforce trust and collusion by providing a tool for cartelists to punish each other. We examine the impact of leniency law, and other rules, theoret...

Blowing the whistle on health care fraud.

Medical technology is crucial to the health and welfare of our citizens. The industry provides us with early detection of diseases, safe and effective treatment options for the diseases that are detected and so on. It goes without saying that the marketing and sales of such devices and products should be based on their benefits to the patients, not on inappropriate incentives to the healthcare ...