Acknowledgements

The Brookings Metro Program's Jennifer Thompson provided excellent and thorough research and substantive assistance.

For their contributions to this paper, we wish to thank Michael Cheroutes, Steve Gallagher, Robert Udall Glazier, Jim Hatter, Dusty Holcombe, Brad Larsen, John Ma, Ryan Orr, Joseph Pavona, Benjamin Wagner, and James Whitty. We would also like to thank John McBride and Dorte Ekelund for their invaluable insights into the workings of PPP Canada and Infrastructure Australia. Special thanks go to William Reinhardt, the editor of Public Works Financing, who made possible the data analysis in this study. David Bloomgarten, Gregory Diekers, Nicholas Farber, Tony Wall, and Jaime Rall provided valuable comments in the review of this report.

The Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings would like to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for their support of this work. It would also like to thank the Rockefeller Foundation and the Surdna Foundation for their support of the Program's Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative.