When regulated firms are offered compensation to prevent them from relocating, efficiency requires that payments be distributed across firms so as to equalize marginal relocation probabilities, weighted by the damage caused by relocation. We formalize this fundamental economic logic and apply it...

This paper presents first results from a new European-wide research network for evidence-based climate policy. Using administrative data on industrial firms in Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden,we construct harmonized measures of carbon dioxide emissions per job. We...