Suleiman Abu-Bader () (Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Aamer Abu-Qarn () (Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
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In this study we test for structural changes in international trade patterns of 77 countries over the post-WWII period, to examine if they experienced a substantial increase in their trade ratios following major GATT rounds such as the Kennedy Round, or after joining GATT. Our results show that trade ratios of most of these countries exhibited structural breaks in their time paths, however, most of the postbreak paths were below the extrapolated prebreak paths. Furthermore, while the significant break years coincided closely with major regional and international events such as the oil shocks of the 70s and the East-Asian financial crisis in 1997, they occurred far before or after the time of a country's accession to GATT or the time of the major GATT rounds.
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Paper provided by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
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