Logistics performance and export competitiveness: European experience
By R. Puertas, L. Marti, Leandro García. 2014
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Logistics performance has become a decisive factor in export competitiveness. At the same time, and as a result of the continuous enlargement processes it has undergone, the European Union (EU) is a very interesting case to study how the reforms that enhance logistics performance have affected exports. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse the importance of logistics performance in regard to EU exports over the period 2005–2010 in an attempt to identify possible advances on behalf of Member States. Several gravity equations are estimated using the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and its components as characteristic proxy variables of trade facilitation. In order to avoid the possible heterogeneity caused by sample bias, the two-stage model proposed by Heckman is used. The estimations of the gravity models using the two-stage Heckman model for all 26 EU countries have led us to conclude that logistics was more important for exporting nations than importing nations in both 2005 and 2010, reinforcing the interest in the exporter side of the paper. In reference to the components of the LPI, Competence and Tracking has acquired greater importance in recent years, in keeping with the weak domestic demand in European countries and the search for new international markets.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management
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- The importance of the Logistics Performance Index in international trade (2014, background): “On a different note, researchers have also attempted to ascertain the importance of LPI components with regard to trade, either by including several components in the same model (Felipe and Kumar, 2012) or by estimating regressions that consider only one of the components (Hertel and Mirza, 2009; Pu”
- Critical Barriers to Implementation of Reverse Logistics in the Manufacturing Industry: A Case Study of a Developing Country (2018, background): “On the other hand, Pakistan’s manufacturing and logistics companies are facing hurdles in their operations due to deficiencies in logistics infrastructure [31,32].”
- A Dea-Logistics Performance Index (2017, background): “In the same vein, Behar and Manners (2008) and Puertas et al. (2014) use the LPI published by the World Bank to explore the relationships that exist between bilateral exports and logistics.”