Competition Economist; European Competition practice

Competition Economist (European Competition Practice)

Paris, France

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 specializes in providing economic advice on matters of competition policy and regulation. We assist firms and their legal advisors in all types of competition proceedings: firms considering merger and acquisition opportunities or involved in merger control proceedings; and firms undergoing investigations relating to cartels, restrictive commercial agreements, abuse of dominance or state aid. We also provide advice to firms involved in regulatory proceedings and sector inquiries, and assist on the estimation effects of damages in cartel cases, international arbitration and intellectual property disputes.

Position Overview

Consulting Associates, Senior Associates and Associate Principals assist Vice Presidents and other senior staff by providing conceptual and practical input to competition case work as required. The role brings with it the possibility of working on some of the largest and most significant competition cases in Europe, playing a key role in shaping the cases. Candidates may be Master's, PhD and experienced consultants with prior consulting and competition policy experience.

Depending on the level, our Consulting Economists may:

• Identify and conceptualize issues, specifying rigorous economic models to analyze 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 summarizing opinions, conclusions, and recommendations using market, industry or client-proprietary data;
• Act as a contact or 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
• Participate in, or contribute to, practice-building activities (training, recruiting, publication, expertise sharing, etc.).

Desired Qualifications

• Educational and work experience qualifications differ by position:
• Consulting Associate: MSc/MPhil in economics from well-regarded institutions with a strong foundation in microeconomics, preferably with a specialization in industrial organization or statistics/econometrics, a good first degree in economics, plus up to 3 years of professional work experience in consulting, business, or with a competition authority.
• Senior Associate: PhD/DPhil in economics from well-regarded institutions with a strong foundation in microeconomics, preferably with a specialization in industrial organization or statistics/econometrics, a good first degree in economics, and up to 3 years of professional work experience in consulting, business, or with a competition authority OR a MSc/MPhil with a similar background, plus 3-5 years of professional work experience in consulting, business, or with a competition authority.
• Associate Principal: PhD/DPhil in economics from well-regarded institutions with a strong foundation in microeconomics, preferably with a specialization in industrial organization or statistics/econometrics, a good first degree in economics and 3-5 years of professional work experience in consulting, business, or with a competition authority OR a MSc/MPhil with a similar background, plus 5-9 years of professional work experience in consulting, business, or with a competition authority.
• Fluency in English and French, additional fluency in Dutch and/or German desirable;
• Demonstrated…