The Impact of Logistics Performance On Countries’ Export Growth: A Global Gravity Approach
Dušan STEINHAUSER – Lucia KHÚLOVÁ
https://doi.org/10.53465/CEECBE.2025.9788022552257.328-339
Abstract: This study deals with defining the link between logistics performance scores (LPI index) and export growth. The main aim of the paper is to evaluate the influence of logistics performance on the expansion of countries’ exports, utilising the LPI index and its components, such as infrastructure quality, ability to track and trace consignments, ease of arranging competitively priced shipments, or efficiency of the customs clearance process. Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimators with fixed effects were used to estimate gravity models as the core method of application. The results of the research suggest that higher logistics performance impacts export growth, while increasing the similarity of the overall LPI between countries supports more intensive bilateral trade flows. The study thus emphasises the importance of improving logistics efficiency as a tool to strengthen countries’ export performance and support their global competitiveness.
Keywords: LPI Index, Logistics, Gravity Model, PPML
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Published by: Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, Bratislava University of Economics and Business
Year of publication: 2025
Online publication date: 16 May 2025
Copyright: Author/s of the paper
ISBN 978-80-225-5225-7
ISSN 2453-6113
Pages 328 – 339