Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, and governments around the world. For nearly 60 years, CRA experts have combined rigorous cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art methodology, and proven experience to address our clients’ most complex challenges.
CRA's European Competition practice specialises in providing economic advice on matters of competition policy and regulation. We assist firms and their legal advisors in all types of competition proceedings before competition authorities and courts: mergers and acquisitions, abuse of dominance allegations, cartels, restrictive commercial agreements, market investigations, litigation and disputes, intellectual property or state aid. We also provide advice to regulatory authorities in similar matters.
CRA seeks new PhD economists with strong grounding in Applied Microeconomics or Applied Microeconometrics to join CRA’s European Competition practice. Senior Associates have the opportunity to immediately help shape the economic analysis and thinking for some of the largest, high profile and most significant competition cases in Europe. Our European Competition practice office locations are in the UK (London), Belgium (Brussels), Germany (Munich and Dusseldorf) and France (Paris).
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Senior Associate responsibilities may include:
- Identifying and conceptualising issues, specifying rigorous economic models to analyse market issues and data, undertaking statistical and econometric estimation, and managing the work of research associate staff and colleagues;
- Supervising, training and mentoring research associate staff;
- Assisting in the development and presentation of client deliverables, including expert reports and white papers summarising opinions, conclusions, and recommendations using market, industry or client-proprietary data;
- Acting as a primary point of contact for lawyers and other industry or government clients on a variety of practice-relevant issues;
- Programming, model building and/or regression analysis in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, Python, R, SAS, Matlab, and Mathematica) including large data projects requiring use of cloud computing;
- Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions; and
- Participating in practice-building activities (training, recruiting, publication, expertise sharing, etc.).
As most of our work takes place in CRA’s offices, minimal travel is required.
Desired Qualifications
Successful candidates will have or be expected to complete a Ph.D. in economics by 2025 and, as noted above, will have expertise in Applied Microeconomics or Applied Microeconometrics including relevant applied fields as noted above.
CRA provides immigration assistance to eligible foreign nationals in accordance with the firm’s immigration policy and applicable law.
To Apply
To be considered for all interview opportunities, candidates must:
- Submit your curriculum vitae, cover letter, a copy of a research/job market paper or dissertation, and 2 letters of recommendation to this posting;
- Submit the short CRA online application on our website. If you have a geographic office preference, please indicate that in the application.
Our Commitment to Diversity
Charles River Associates is an equal opportunity employer (Equality Act 2010). As part of our focus on equity and inclusion, we work to ensure a fair and consistent hiring process. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to an inclusive work environment.
Deadline
Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis, with first round interviews occurring virtually. To be considered, please submit your application no later than 1 November 2024. Note: This posting will close at midnight UTC 1 Nov 2024. Candidates who are focusing their search on industry and consulting and would like to be considered early should indicate that in the CRA online application and submit all materials as early as possible.
- Curriculum vitae
- Cover letter
- Job market paper
- Letters of reference: 2