In this paper, we analyse the welfare implications of alternative tariff rates in Nigeria given the government's goals of spurring domestic production and reducing imports utilising a spatial multi-market model that explicitly takes into account the potential for smuggling. Because smuggling occurs through the diversion of imports from the official port of entry in...

In this paper, we analyse the welfare implications of alternative tariff rates in Nigeria given the government's goals of spurring domestic production and reducing imports utilising a spatial multi-market model that explicitly takes into account the potential for smuggling. Because smuggling occurs through the diversion of imports from the official port of entry in...