The debate over the use of tariffs or value added taxes in developing countries has focused on the difficulty of … parameterizations of the model, higher VAT reduces informality. Despite this, whether a revenue neutral shift from tariffs to VAT …

The majority of research to date investigating strategic tariffs in the presence of multinationals finds a knife … of endogenously chosen tariffs. As is standard, Nash equilibrium tariffs are higher than the socially optimal tariffs …. Unlike existing models with homogeneous firms, we find that non-cooperative tariffs promote the existence of low …

structural model of endogenous tariff evasion, one which then highlights the importance of both tariffs and border enforcement …

This paper explores how reductions in tariffs on imported inputs and final goods affect firm productivity by exploiting … construct firm-level input and output tariffs. Careful examination of the extent of firm engagement in processing trade and in … importantly, unlike previous findings, reductions in output tariffs have a greater effect on productivity improvement compared …