2017 Summer Intern

NERA Economic Consulting
Multiple US locations - United States
S: Internship

NERA Economic Consulting (http://www.nera.com/) is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges. For half a century, NERA's economists have been creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for government authorities and the world's leading law firms and corporations. We bring academic rigor, objectivity, and real world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.

Why NERA? NERA's clients value our ability to apply and communicate state-of-the-art approaches clearly and convincingly, our commitment to deliver unbiased findings, and our reputation for quality and independence. Our clients rely on the integrity and skills of our unparalleled team of economists and other experts backed by the resources and reliability of one of the world's largest economic consultancies. NERA offers a challenging and rewarding work environment, highly competitive compensation and benefits, and skills enhancement training. NERA provides challenging opportunities to those eager to take on many responsibilities and allows you to make significant contributions early in your career. The analytical depth of our projects, the breadth of industry exposure, and experience working in teams offers excellent preparation for researchers applying to top graduate programs in business, economics, and law, and for ensuing careers in consulting, finance, industry, and academia.

NERA is currently hiring Summer Researchers in our Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and White Plains (NY) offices.

Responsibilities
Interns are required to work a minimum of 40 hours a week. Job responsibilities may include: designing and building quantitative models and applying econometric analysis to economic and financial data; valuation analyses; reviewing, summarizing, and analyzing industry trends; creating trial exhibits and presentation materials; writing code for complex data analysis; participating in client meetings; and drafting memos and expert reports. There is little to no travel involved with the position.

Summer Researcher Qualifications: NERA welcomes candidates who are rising juniors and seniors who are working toward a BA or a BS in any major to apply. As a qualified candidate you should be able to demonstrate exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills and must be detail-oriented, have exceptional communication skills, and work well on teams. Strong coursework and/or experience in finance, economics, accounting, statistical analysis/econometrics, and computer programming are all desirable.

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