The effect of logistics on the industry’s efficiency and its channels in China

Abstract

Abstract: This paper analyzes theoretically the moderating effects of geographic distance, policy environment, firms' scale and informationization level on the operational mechanism by which the logistics will improve the industrial efficiency. Then, we test the theoretical deduction hypotheses using the panel data for 190 Mainland China cities from 2005 to 2009 and by means of the SFA model. The results show that, firstly, on the entire country level, the logistics industry has, through specialization and scale economy, helped promote the industry's efficiency, while, on the regional level, the low development level of the regional logistics acts as a deterrent to the improvement of its efficiency; secondly, the geographic distance between the logistics industry and the industrial enterprises is negatively related to the promoting effect of the logistics on the industrial efficiency, and improving the logistics' agglomeration can strengthen its promoting effect on the industrial efficiency; and thirdly, improving the policy environment, strengthening the firms' scale and enhancing the informationization level could improve the promoting effect of logistics on the industrial efficiency.

Key words: logistics, industrial efficiency, channel, stochastic frontier function model

CLC Number:

F062.9

Liang Hongyan, Wang Jian. The effect of logistics on the industry’s efficiency and its channels in China[J]. Science Research Management, 2013, 34(12): 120-126.

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