Projects

WORKING PAPERS

• 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

• 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 (2024) The FT (2025)

|| Blogposts: The Economics Observatory (2024)

• 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)

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.

• AEA Registry

• 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) 

  • AEA Registry

  • 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 

• Impact Evaluation of Tech Accelerator Programmes, Max Nathan, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom, Olmo Silva

• 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) World Bank GWU Sustainable Cities (2025)

• 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 

• Are ‘green’ jobs good jobs? (2021) - Mirko Draca, Jiaqi Li, Sabrina Muller, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

  • Policy Brief

  • 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