(2027 PhD/ABD graduates) Senior Associate (Antitrust & Competition Economics) - European Union

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In short

→Asociado Senior en economía antimonopolio para casos clave en la UE.
→Trabajas con modelos económicos, análisis estadísticos y supervisas equipo en proyectos de fusión, dominancia y cartels.
→Se busca PhD en economía con enfoque en microeconomía aplicada y habilidades cuantitativas avanzadas.

Proficiency in English is required.

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What they ask for

✓Doctorado en economía con finalización entre diciembre 2026 y verano 2027.
✓Enfoque académico en microeconomía aplicada, econometría o áreas cuantitativas.
✓Experiencia en Stata, Python, R, SQL, SAS o herramientas de computación en la nube.
✓Capacidad para desarrollar modelos económicos y realizar análisis estadísticos rigurosos.
✓Habilidades de supervisión y mentoría de personal de investigación.
✓Capacidad para comunicar análisis complejos a abogados y clientes.

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About Charles River Associates 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. Since 1965, 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. Learn more about our work by reviewing our Services and Industries on our website . The Antitrust & Competition Economics is hiring for the following European Union offices in Brussels, Belgium; Dusseldorf and Munich, Germany; Paris, France. Position Overview Senior Associates work closely with senior consultants 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, playing a key role in shaping the economic analysis and thinking of these cases. Successful candidates have a strong knowledge of economic concepts and a range of research and quantitative skills. A typical Senior Associate would: • Identify and conceptualise 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; • Supervise, train and mentor research associate staff; • Assist 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; • Act as a primary point of contact for lawyers and other industry or government clients on a variety of practice-relevant issues; • Program, build models and/or perform regression analyses in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, Python, R, SAS, Matlab, and Mathematica), including large data projects requiring use of cloud computing; • Ensure the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions; and • Contribute to practice-building activities (training, recruiting, publication, expertise sharing, etc.). Explore how CRA can help you launch your career and learn why PhDs choose CRA . Desired Qualifications • PhD degree in economics with a completion date of December 2026/Summer 2027 and an academic focus on Applied Microeconomics or Applied Microeconometrics, with specializations like industrial organization, labor, health, behavioural and public economics, or other quantitative areas; • Experience in Excel, Stata, Python, R, SQL, SAS, ArcGIS/ArcPy, or Cloud computing (Databricks/Spark, Google Cloud, Azure, AWS); • Demonstrated understanding of, and ability to explain, economic, financial and/or accounting concepts, and quantitative and qualitative analysis methods; • Curious and analytical thinkers who bring creative approaches to no

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