Arnold Picot is Head of the Research Center for Information, Organization, and Management at the Munich School of Management, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich.

Massimo Florio is Professor of Public Economics at the University of Milan. He is the author of The Great Divestiture and coeditor of The Economics of Infrastructure Provisioning (both published by the MIT Press).

Nico Grove is CEO of the Institute for Infrastructure Economics and Management, Munich.

Johann Kranz is Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems and Methods at the University of Goettingen.