Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world. For 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. Our cases include monopolization, collusion, contractual restrictions, innovation, merger reviews and regulatory proceedings.
CRA seeks new PhD economists with strong grounding in Applied Microeconomics or Applied Econometrics to join CRA’s Antitrust & Competition Economics practice.
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Our Antitrust and Competition Economics (NA) practice hiring office locations are Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area, CA; Washington, DC and Toronto, ON.
Senior Associate responsibilities may include:
- Identifying and conceptualizing issues, specifying rigorous economic models to analyze market issues, 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 summarizing opinions, conclusions, and recommendations using market, industry or client-proprietary data;
- Acting as a primary point of contact for attorneys 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, SAS, Matlab, R, Mathematica and Python) 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 2026 and, as noted above, will have expertise in Industrial Organization, Econometrics, or Applied Microeconomics. Typical fields of specialization for Economics PhDs joining CRA’s competition practice include: Econometrics; Health, Education, Welfare; Industrial Organization; Labor, Demographic Economics; Law and Economics; Microeconomics.
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 the CRA online application on our website, including curriculum vitae, cover letter, and a copy of a research/job market paper or dissertation. If you have geographic office preference(s), please indicate that in the application;
- Submit 3 letters of recommendation to LORSubmission@crai.com
Our Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Associates is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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 November 1, 2025 Note: This posting will close at midnight UTC 1 Nov, which is 7 pm US Eastern Time and 4 pm US Pacific Time. 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.
To apply, visit https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/charlesriverassociates/jobs/7133862. (See posting for details.)