Policies, Enforcement, and Customs Evasion : Evidence from India /

We examine the effect of tariff policies on evasion of customs duties, in the context of the trade reform in India of the 1990s. We exploit the variation in tariff rates across time and products to identify the evasion elasticity, namely, the effect of tariffs on evasion, and relate this elasticity...

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Main Author: Mishra, Prachi
Other Authors: Subramanian, Arvind, Topalova, Petia
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/060
Online Access:Full text available on IMF