The impact of logistics performance on exports, imports and foreign direct investment

Abstract

There is an increasing demand for transportation solutions that are responsive, safe, sustainable, smart and cost-efficient. This has resulted in increased emphasis on responsive intermodal transportation systems. WRITR provides an international forum for the critical evaluation and dissemination of research and development in all areas related to intermodal transportation. Research disseminated via WRITR has significant impact on both theory and practice, and is of value to academics, practitioners and policy makers in this field.

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“…LPI consists of six different indicators reflecting main drivers of countries logistics performance: (1) the efficiency of customs and border management clearance ("Customs"); (2) the quality of trade and transport infrastructure (Infrastructure"); (3) the ease of arranging competitively priced shipments (Ease of arranging shipments"); (4) the competence and quality of logistics services-trucking, forwarding, and customs brokerage ("Quality of logistics In the literature, the moderating role of institutional quality seeking to explore the complexity of economic corridors and their impact on logistics performance to the best of our knowledge, has not been analyzed yet. Authors focused on moderating role of corruption (Larson, 2020;Uca et al, 2016), competitiveness, institutions (Haavisto & Vaillancourt, 2017;Halaszovich et al, 2020;Soh et al, 2021;Uyar et al, 2021), trade volumes (Uca et al, 2016), economic growth (Civelek et al, 2015) and other factors affecting logistics performance, but not the impact of economic corridors to logistics performance. However, authors emphasized the importance of institutional quality to be significant for the development of economic corridors (De & Iyengar, 2014) and in the context of BRI, the linkage between regional institutions and participation in Global value chains (GVC) appeared to be significant for encouraging firms to participate in GVCs (Ge et al, 2020); or the importance of conditions of institutional quality for attracting foreign direct investment (Aibai et al, 2019); of the role of institutional quality in the field of environmental protection (Wu et al, 2021).…”