Measuring the effects of reciprocity between the economic blocs and crises-The case of USA within the bloc, the Free Trade Area of North America for the period 1980-2012

Abstract

This study sheds light on the analysis of the correlation between economic integration and the crises, based on the analysis the test of structural change in the model, which has been drafted to USA, in an attempt to determine if the integration as Applied in the Free Trade Area of North American, Which is symbolized by bloc NAFTA, latest a change in parameters of the model before and after the bloc,this is proof of the existence of difference in the impact of the crisis before and after the agreement, and the rest of the independent variables in the interpretation the dependent variable, representative in the GDP