Charles River Associates Charles River Associates (CRA) 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. Our experts bring a unique combination of cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art methods, and proven experience to bear on our clients’ most complex challenges.
CRA is seeking new PhD economists with strong grounding in applied microeconomic theory or empirics to join the Antitrust and Competition Economics practice within CRA which provides economic analysis and expert testimony in antitrust litigation and regulatory matters, including the antitrust review of mergers.
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Our Antitrust and Competition Economics (NA) practice hiring locations are Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area, CA; Toronto ON; Washington, DC.
For more than 50 years, CRA has been a leader in providing economic analysis, advice, and testimony for antitrust and merger cases worldwide. Our work as antitrust experts focuses on rigorous empirical assessments of whether competition in a market has been or will be adversely affected, leaving consumers to face higher prices, fewer choices, or stifled innovation. CRA’s expertise in antitrust and competition economics finds application in a wide range of cases including those related to monopolization, collusion, exclusive dealing, innovation policy, and merger review. We tailor our analyses to the facts of each case, employing tools such as econometrics, game theory, incentive modeling, and merger simulation as needed. Our projects are led by internal experts or leading industrial organization academics including Fiona Scott Morton (Yale), Kevin Murphy (Chicago), Steven Salop (Georgetown), Carl Shapiro (Berkeley), Ralph Winter (UBC), Adonis Yatchew (UToronto), and Frank Mathewson (UToronto), Joshua Gans (UToronto). Whether before a court or a regulatory agency, CRA consultants set a high standard for the clear communication of sophisticated economic analysis in complex cases.
Responsibilities may include:
- Working closely with leading academics or internal CRA experts, managing the research process, and supervising, training and mentoring junior analysts
- Conducting research in a supportive, team-oriented environment
- Acting as a primary point of contact for clients and assisting in the development and presentation of client deliverables including expert reports and white papers summarizing opinions, conclusions, and recommendations using market, industry, or proprietary client data
- Programming, model building and/or regression analysis in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, SAS, Matlab, R, Mathematica and Python)
- Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions
As most of our work is done in the office, minimal travel is required.
Qualifications
Successful candidates will have or be expected to complete a Ph.D. in economics by 2023, and will have specific expertise in the fields of industrial organization, applied microeconomics, econometrics, labor, health, or other quantitative areas.
CRA provides immigration assistance to eligible foreign nationals in accordance with the firm’s immigration policy and applicable law.
How 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 3 letters of recommendation to this posting
- Submit the very short CRA online application at https://grnh.se/649f77701us. If you have a location or practice preference, please indicate that in the application.
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 16, 2022. Note: This posting will close at midnight UTC 16 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.
- Cover letter
- Curriculum vitae
- Job market paper
- Additional paper (optional)
- Other material (in one file) (optional)
- Video presentation of job market paper (optional)
- Video presentation of applicant (optional)
- Letters of reference: 3