Internship in Berlin and Frankfurt

Company:

NERA

Description:

NERA (www.nera.com) is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges. For over 60 years, 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.

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. With its main office in New York City, NERA serves clients from more than 25 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

We have internship opportunities available in the following teams.

• Competition Economics

In the Competition Economics team, you will work on high-profile cases conducting theoretical and empirical economic analysis. You will, for example, develop economic evidence as to whether a tech firm may have abused its market power, quantify the damage possibly caused by a cartel, or accompany the parties to a merger through the review process in front of the European Commission or other competition authorities.

• Energy, Environment, Communications, and Infrastructure

The mandates of the EECI team include the design of conveying systems for renewable energy, the development of economically efficient pricing systems for transport infrastructure, the investigation of efficient financing costs as well as structures for infrastructure investments and the creation and critical assessment of economic critical expert reports in lawsuits and arbitration procedures.

• Transfer Pricing

The Transfer Pricing team works with leading multinational corporations and other clients in determining and implementing value-creating business strategies and economically sound transaction structures. Current focus includes arm's length pricing of cross-border transactions, valuation of business entities and intellectual property, and other business planning and controversy resolutions.

Responsibilities

• Full collaboration and assistance in different consulting teams

• Active co-creation of studies, appraisals and presentations, from the conception to the execution of economic analyses up to the documentation of results

• Research and analysis of company, industry and market data, using statistical tools, if interested

• Development and application of quantitative models and argumentation streams using your economic knowledge acquired during your studies

Your Profile

• Very good university degree (at least Bachelor) in economics, finance or a similar discipline

• Interest in economic topics, especially of microeconomic and/or fiscal nature

• Intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, precise and solution-oriented way of working as well as the ability to quickly become acquainted with unknown issues

• Distinctive analytical and quantitative skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in German and English or for the Competition team, fluent Italian.

• High degree of reliability, sense of responsibility, ability to work in a team and motivation

• First experience in applied economic research is desirable

• MS office skills are desirable

We offer

For our expanding offices in Berlin and Frankfurt, we are looking for a dedicated team and offer interesting, versatile and challenging tasks and insights into the day-to-day business of an economic consulting firm. We offer an internship of 2 to 12 months with flexible start date and competitive remuneration. Economic Consulting lies at the exciting interface between scientific work, economic expertise and customer-oriented consulting. Our new, growing office in Berlin benefits from the company's global resources, its close collaboration, in particular, with offices in Frankfurt, London, Paris, and Madrid as well as opportunities for cooperation with Oliver Wyman.

You can expect an enjoyable working environment, a dynamic team, flat hierarchies as well as an independent way of working while having support from the entire team as well as high chances to start your career with NERA.

We usually work in small teams which enables you to take part in all stages of a project. Moreover, you will get your personal buddy who will facilitate your extensive introduction into the company and your main tasks.

Interested?

To apply, please submit your full academic CV, transcripts, cover letter and a writing sample directly on this posting.

For more information about NERA please visit our website (www.nera.com).

For more information on the employment opportunities at NERA please contact Emma Cairns, Senior Recruitment Manager, at nerarecruitment@nera.com.

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