economics consulting case interview?

Hi - I have an interview with Cornerstone Research coming up and was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to prepare for an economic consulting case interview. Thanks so much!

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I interviewed with Cornerstone and didn't have many finance questions, and the economics questions were fairly light. Unlike a strategy case interview, the questions were short answer. For example: If another player enters this market, what do you expect to happen to the price?

The cases weren't overly complex I didn't think. Cornerstone has a ton of stuff on their website that was helpful to me. Like this:

http://www.cornerstone.com/files/Publication/525f54aa-ce01-4a57-ac7f-0f…

 

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