Rick Geddes is an assistant professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and the Journal of Law and Economics. His fields of interest include postal reform, the effects of regulation on corporate governance, public utility regulation, and the economics of women’s rights. He was a visiting faculty fellow at Yale Law School from 1995 to 1996, and a national fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1999 to 2000. He is an adjunct scholar at AEI. He taught in the Economics Department at Fordham University from 1991 to 2002.

Maurice McTigue joined the Mercatus Center in 1997 as a distinguished visiting scholar. Before his arrival in the United States, Mr. McTigue led a successful effort to restructure New Zealand’s public sector from 1984 to 1994. He entered the New Zealand Parliament in 1985 and served as the National Party's junior whip. As spokesman for works, irrigation, transport and fisheries, Mr. McTigue was involved in the deregulation of labor markets and of the transportation industry. In 1991, Mr. McTigue accepted the positions of minister of state-owned enterprises, minister of railways, and minister of works and development. In April 1994, he moved to Canada as New Zealand’s Ambassador. As director of the Government Accountability Project at Mercatus, Mr. McTigue is sharing the lessons of his practical experience with policymakers in the United States. He works with officials in the administration, members of Congress, and executives in federal agencies on applying the principles of transparency and accountability in the public sector. Mr. McTigue coauthored the Mercatus Center publication Putting a Price on Performance: A Demonstration Study of Outcome-Based Scrutiny. In addition, Mr. McTigue is a frequent contributor to national magazines and trade publications and he sits on the Performance Management Advisory Committee for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

John Panzar is the Louis W. Menk Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1983. Mr. Panzar has also taught as a visitor at the University of Califonia-Berkeley (1977), the University of Pennsylvania (1983), and the University of Auckland (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002). Mr. Panzar was a member of technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1974 to 1983, and was the head of the Economic Analysis Research Department from 1980 to 1983. Mr. Panzar has served as an economic consultant to the United States Postal Service, the Federal Aviation Administration, the World Bank, the Federal Trade Commission, Deutsche Telecom, Deutsche Post, the Royal Mail, and the Senate of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He has testified before the Postal Rate Commission, the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission, and the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Panzar is an associate editor of the Journal of Regulatory Economics, a member of the editorial board of Information Economics and Policy, and coeditor of the Review of Network Economics, a journal that provides reviews of papers of relevance to practitioners working in network industries.

J. Gregory Sidak studies regulatory and antitrust policy concerning network industries. He is the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics Emeritus at the AEI. He has directed AEI’s Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation since the project’s inception in 1992. Mr. Sidak served as deputy general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission from 1987 to 1989 and as senior counsel and economist to the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President from 1986 to 1987. With Daniel F. Spulber, he is coauthor of Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Protecting Competition from the Postal Monopoly (AEI Press, 1996). Mr. Sidak is the editor of Is the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Broken? If So, How Can We Fix It? (AEI Press, 1999), and Governing the Postal Service (AEI Press, 1994). Mr. Sidak has published approximately fifty scholarly articles in law reviews or economics journals, including the American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, Antitrust Law Journal, California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Harvard International Law Journal, Journal of Network Industries, Journal of Political Economy, New York University Law Review, Review of Industrial Organization, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Yale Journal on Regulation, as well as opinion essays in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other business periodicals.