Determinants of logistics efficiency with the comparison among China and EU-OBOR countries

Wu, Chengyue

Determinants of logistics efficiency with the comparison among China and EU-OBOR countries

Abstract

The proposal of One Belt One Road has brought great space for the development of logistics industry in this era. It will promote the logistics industry in all aspects, but at the same time, it requires countries to speed up the improvement of logistics efficiency in order to occupy a place in the fierce international competition. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze determinants that affect the logistics efficiency of various countries. The methods of the study are DEA, a system composed of multiple input variables and multiple output variables and Tobit, a regression model of dependent variables can ensure the accuracy and scientific. These two methods are used to analyze six micro determinants and four macro determinants separately. The results show that the logistics efficiency of most countries is still in a state of inefficiency, and there are great differences in logistics efficiency among countries, only five countries – China, Greece, Malta, Portugal and Romania reached the effective logistics efficiency. It can also be concluded that the invalid of logistics efficiency of most countries are caused by both the pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency, between which the pure technical efficiency has a great impact.