Jerry A. Hausman is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Hausman has served as the director of the MIT Telecommunications Economics Research Program since 1988. His work has been published in many scholarly journals, such as the Yale Journal on Regulation, American Economic Review, Yale Law Journal, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Political Economy, Rand Journal of Economics, Antitrust Law Journal, and Journal of Industrial Economics. He is the coauthor of a forthcoming paper on mobile telecommunications called the "Handbook of Telecommunications Economics." Mr. Hausman was awarded the Frisch Medal from the Econometric Society and the John Bates Clark Award from the American Economics Association. He serves on a number of boards, including as an advisory editor for the Economics Research Network and Social Science Research, and he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Mr. Hausman received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

J. Gregory Sidak is a resident scholar at AEI. He has served as the deputy general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission and as a senior counsel and economist on President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is the author or coauthor of five books on network industries, including Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States; Toward Competition in Local Telephony; and Transmission Pricing and Stranded Costs in the Electric Power Industry. Mr. Sidak has published more than forty scholarly articles in law reviews and economics journals, including the American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Yale Journal on Regulation. His work has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, the lower federal and state supreme courts, state and federal regulatory commissions, and the European Commission.