Projects
WORKING PAPERS
Rapid Urban Growth in Flood Zones: Global Evidence since 1985 (2022) - Policy Research Working Paper 10014 - Rentschler, Avner, Marconcini, Su, Strano, Hallegatte, Bernard, Riom
Worker Skills or Firm Wage-Setting Practices? Decomposing Wage Inequality Across 20 OECD Countries [ Under Review ]
Before: Workforce Composition, Productivity and Pay: The Role of Firms in Wage Inequality (2020) - IZA Discussion Paper No. 13212 - Criscuolo, Hijzen, Schwellnus, Chen, Fabling, Fialho, Grabska, Kambayashi, Leidecker, Nordström, Riom, Roth, Stadler, Upward and Zwysen
RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIALS
AI for SMEs in retail and hospitality in the UK (2021) Anna Valero, Capucine Riom (IGL Working Paper Series)
In partnership with the Greater London Authority, Cognition X and Capital Enterprise. Funded by BEIS Business Basics programme and supervised and monitored by NESTA.
Media: Nesta, City A.M, World Bank Blog
Nesta Blog on lessons learnt
Growth Vouchers Program: Evidence from the largest business support randomised control trial in the UK, Nunez-Chaim, Overman, Riom [Submitted] (CEP Discussion Paper)
Presentation at CRED Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics (2022)
BOOK CHAPTERS
The green transition in the labour market: understanding and managing impacts for workers across the OECD with Anna Valero
Handbook of Labour Markets in Transition: Promoting Resilience in Flux
WORK IN PROGRESS
Optimal spatial adaptation in Vietnam
Public Sector Relocations: The BBC relocates to Manchester, Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom, Maria Sanchez-Vidal
|| Presentation: Urban Economics Association Philadelphia 2019, Urban Economics Association Amsterdam 2019
|| Media: The Guardian
Impact Evaluation of Tech Accelerator Programmes, Max Nathan, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom, Olmo Silva
Environmental Hazards and Inequality, Martina Pardy, Roman Hoffman, Capucine Riom [ Under Review ]
|| Presentation: LSE Geography and Environment Work in Progress (2021), PhD Work in Progress (2022), PNAS (2023) , Science Po (2023)
Nowhere else to go? Flood Risks and Land Scarcity, Jun Rentschler, Paolo Avner, Capucine Riom, Louise Bernard [WP available upon request]
|| Presentation: LSE Geography and Environment Work in Progress (2022), Columbia Sustainable Development - PhD Workshop (2022) Urban Economics Association - European Meeting (2022), Association of Environmental and Resources Economics (AERE, Miami 2022), Cambridge Early Career Researcher Conference (2023)
Growth Vouchers Program: Evidence from the largest business support randomised control trial in the UK, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom [Under Review] (CEP Discussion Paper)
||Presentation at CRED Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics (2022) Devo Deal Monitoring and Evaluation meeting at the Department for Business Economics and Industrial Strategy (2019)
POLICY PAPERS
Climate Change
Net Zero Jobs (2022) - Molly Broome, Stefano Cellini, Kathleen Henehan, Charlie McCurdy, Capucine Riom, Anna Valero & Guglielmo Ventura
Media coverage: The Independent, Aviva Investors "The Little Book of Data" 2022
Are ‘green’ jobs good jobs? (2021) - Mirko Draca, Jiaqi Li, Sabrina Muller, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero
Presentation at GRI-Social Value Portal "The Road from COP 26" event
Innovation and Technology Diffusion
The business response to Covid-19 one year on: the second wave of the CEP-CBI survey on technology adoption (2021) - Anna Valero, Capucine Riom, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha
Firms’ digital innovation in the pandemic: how have workers been affected? (2022) - Economics Observatory
COVID-19 spurred a wave of new technology adoption by UK businesses (2021) - LSE Business Review
Media coverage: The Economist, International Business Times, Labour Research Department
The business response to Covid-19: The CEP-CBI survey on technology adoption (2020) - Anna Valero and Capucine Riom
Presented at the CEP Conference on Covid-19 and business technology adoption
COVID has forced many firms to innovate, with possible lasting impacts (2020)- LSE Business Review
Media coverage: The Times, The Times, About Manchester, National Cyber Security Centre reponse