About Charles River Associates
is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations and governments around the world. CRA advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guides corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues. We offer assistance on the estimation effects of damages in cartel cases, international arbitration and intellectual property disputes.
The Senior Associate position is the entry-level position for applicants with a PhD in Economics and limited work experience. The Senior Associate position is also open to applicants with a Master of Economics and at least 3 years of relevant work experience, within economic consulting or with a competition authority. Candidates will be expected to rapidly take on genuine responsibility, working closely with senior consultants, scholars and industry experts on project teams, and will have the opportunity to immediately work on some of the largest, high-profile and most significant competition cases in Europe, providing conceptual and practical input to projects. A Senior Associate would typically:
~Conduct analyses and collect evidence from data and research that support our expert opinions and business recommendations
~Perform regression analyses in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, Python, R), including large data projects requiring the use of cloud computing
~Build economic models tailored to the issues at hand and supporting our expert opinions and business recommendations
~Participate in practice-building activities (training, recruiting, publication, expertise sharing, etc.)
PhD in economics from a well-regarded institution with a strong foundation in microeconomics, preferably with a specialisation in industrial economics and/or econometrics; non-PhD applicants should have a Master of Economics and at least 3 years of relevant work experience, within economic consulting or with a competition authority
Fluency in English, other language skills are considered an asset
High degree of numeracy, ability to analyse data, familiarity with econometric techniques
Charles River Associates, Munich