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NERA Economic Consulting understands what many people can’t: economics. The firm provides economic advice, analysis, expert testimony, and regulatory insight for global clients throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. NERA specializes in bringing academic analysis and rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation.
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Vault Verdict
NERA’s reputation precedes it in the economic and litigation consulting sphere, placing it in the top 2 or 3 firms that anyone interested in a career in the field should be looking at. With a particular strength in competition-related issues, the next few years are likely to be interesting for the firm within EMEA, with high-profile cases across a range of industries—but particularly big tech—finding their way onto the EU docket.
While that work will likely lead to some long hours in places, NERA is also known for its generally high quality of life—a reputation aided by almost zero travel and strong compensation packages.
About the Company
Employing more than 500 professionals, including 425 economists, NERA has been creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for government authorities and the world’s leading law firms and corporations for over half a century. NERA specializes in bringing academic analysis and rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation. The firm uses hard economic data to make its case, drawing on its professionals’ expertise in statistics, econometrics, game theory, mathematics, and computer science.
A Big Umbrella
NERA was founded in 1961 as National Economic Research Associates by Dr. Jules Joskow, a professor of economics, and Dr. Irwin Stelzer,...
Employee Reviews
- “Challenging and interesting work with opportunities for those willing and able to grasp them.”
- “Fantastic colleagues but an extremely poor work-life balance.”
- “NERA is a great firm to work in. The people at work are very nice and intelligent, making it easy to learn a lot from them. Also, the analyses done in NERA are very rigorous and high quality, making me feel very satisfied with the final output that is being produced.”
- “Trainings, work environment, senior management.”
Getting Hired Here
“Energy market questions, cartel case.”
