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Capucine Riom.

Capucine Riom

Occasional Research Assistant

Email:
c.a.riom@lse.ac.uk
Room:
SAL 2.24 F
Links:
CEP Urban
POID

Publications

Blog
Do cities and regions gain from public sector relocation?

Moving public agencies out of London was a major plank of the levelling-up agenda. The effects on local economies seem smaller than hoped - and it's important to compare them with those of other tools of regional policy:... Read more...

Max Nathan, Henry G. Overman, Capucine Riom and Maria Sanchez-Vidal

19 December 2024

Chapter
The green transition: understanding and managing impacts for workers

The transition to net zero will have far-reaching and unequal effects on labour markets, as some jobs disappear, existing jobs change, and new jobs aligned with or supportive of the net-zero objective are created. The ev... Read more...

Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

10 December 2024

CEP discussion papers
Multipliers from a major public sector relocation: The BBC moves to Salford

This paper considers the impact of a major public sector relocation: the British Broadcasting Corporation's partial move from London to Salford, Greater Manchester starting in 2011. We identify effects of the move using ... Read more...

Max Nathan, Henry G. Overman, Capucine Riom and Maria Sanchez-Vidal

16 October 2024

CEP discussion papers
Does subsidising business advice improve firm performance? Evidence from a large RCT

We evaluate the impact of the UK's Growth Vouchers Programme, which offered subsidised business advice to 15,207 randomly selected small and medium size enterprises. Using administrative and survey data, we show that the... Read more...

Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim, Henry G. Overman and Capucine Riom

29 January 2024

Blog
Net zero transition to mean significant change for 1.3 million workers

The UK's experience of structural change through deindustrialisation during the 1970s and 1980s drove up unemployment, concentrated among particular parts of the population, and left deep scars on some parts of the count... Read more...

Molly Broome, Stefano Cellini, Kathleen Henehan, Charlie McCurdy, Capucine Riom, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura

30 June 2022

External publications
Net zero jobs

The Government's commitment to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will mean investment, and change, across the economy: from the decarbonisation of buildings and surface transport, to shifts in diet, avi... Read more...

Molly Broome, Stefano Cellini, Kathleen Henehan, Charlie McCurdy, Capucine Riom, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura

20 June 2022

Blog
Firms' digital innovation in the pandemic: how have workers been affected?

Covid-19 has accelerated digitisation in businesses and changes in working practices. Anna Valero, Capucine Riom and Juliana Oliveira-Cunha show how effective training and skills policies will be needed to support conti... Read more...

Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

03 February 2022

Blog
Lessons on designing tech RCTs with SMEs

Capucine Riom, Anna Valero and Juliana Oliveira-Cunha look at how new technology based on artificial intelligence can be used to help small and medium-sized businesses improve productivity.... Read more...

Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

12 January 2022

Blog
Covid-19 spurred a wave of new technology adoption by UK businesses

The pandemic spurred three-quarters of firms to adopt new technologies, and businesses are keen to continue with this innovation mindset, which could be harnessed to fulfil the UK's net zero commitments. Anna Valero, Cap... Read more...

Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

22 November 2021

CEP Covid-19 analyses
The business response to Covid-19 one year on: findings from the second wave of the CEP-CBI survey on technology adoption

We present new data from a survey of 425 UK businesses conducted in July 2021 in partnership with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which seeks to understand the ways in which firms have innovated one year on ... Read more...

Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

10 November 2021

CEP reports
Are 'green' jobs good jobs?

The transition to net-zero will have far-reaching but unequal effects, as 'dirty' jobs disappear while new jobs aligned with or supportive of the net-zero objective - which we refer to as 'green' - are created. As govern... Read more...

Mirko Draca, Jiaqi Li, Sabrina Muller, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

28 October 2021

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Innovation in the time of Covid-19

Businesses have rapidly adopted new technologies and new ways of working in response to the massive disruptions caused by the pandemic. A CEP report by Capucine Riom and Anna Valero suggests that if such innovation conti... Read more...

Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

02 November 2020

Blog
Covid has forced many firms to innovate, with possible lasting impacts

A survey reveals greater UK innovation rates than what we might have expected in the absence of a pandemic, write Capucine Riom and Anna Valero.... Read more...

Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

01 October 2020

CEP Covid-19 analyses
The business response to Covid-19: the CEP-CBI survey on technology adoption

We present new data from a survey of 375 UK businesses conducted in July 2020 in partnership with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which seeks to understand the way in which firms have innovated in response t... Read more...

Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

30 September 2020

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