(2025 PhD/ABD graduates) Economic Consulting Senior Associate

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ABOUT CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATES

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. Since 1965, clients have engaged CRA for its combination of industry experience and rigorous, fact-based analysis that provide clients with clear, implementable solutions to complex business concerns.

Practices seeking to hire candidates with this profile include (hiring locations listed):

• Antitrust and Competition Economics (Boston, Chicago, New York, Oakland, Washington DC)
• Our Competition practice economists provide analysis and testimony in matters involving mergers and acquisitions, antitrust litigation, and global competition policy.
• Finance (Boston, Chicago, Oakland)
• Our Finance experts work on valuation issues (shareholder class actions and other corporate valuation disputes), as well as matters focused on the functioning of financial markets and institutions (alleged market manipulation and insider trading).
• Financial Economics (Washington DC)
• The Financial Economics group provides analytical expertise and advisory services in financial economics and consumer credit markets to financial institutions, legal teams, and regulators.
• Life Sciences/Litigation & Policy (Boston, San Francisco, Washington DC)
• Our litigation team delivers expert testimony on a range of issues, while our policy experts provide independent analysis of global, national and regional policy issues for life sciences companies, government entities and industry bodies.
• Labor & Employment (College Station, Los Angeles, Tallahassee, Washington DC)
• Our Labor team provides in-depth analysis, expert reports, testimony, and advisory services to clients involved in complex labor and employment issues such as wage and hour litigation and pay equity disputes

Learn more about our work by reviewing our Services and Industries on our website.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD degree in economics with a completion date of December 2024/Summer 2025 and an academic focus on quantitative research, with specializations like industrial organization, applied microeconomics, econometrics, labor, health, intellectual property, pricing and product launch, corporate finance, financial accounting, or other quantitative areas;
• Curious and analytical thinkers who bring creative approaches to non-standard problems;
• Effective written and oral communication skills;
• Eagerness to learn new skills and programming languages;
• Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership;
• Strong teamwork and collaboration capabilities;
• Excellent time management and task prioritization skills;
• Clear and demonstrated interest in consulting through coursework, work experience, activities, or attendance at CRA recruiting events;
• Demonstrated understanding of, and ability to explain, economic, financial and/or accounting concepts, and quantitative and qualitative analysis methods;
• Experience in Excel, Stata, Python, R, SQL, SAS, ArcGIS/ArcPy, or Cloud computing (Databricks/Spark, Google Cloud, Azure, AWS);
• As much of our work occurs in our offices, minimal travel is required.

Please refer the Job description for details