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Study of the Efficiency Measurement of Logistics Industry in East China Based on Three-stage DEA Model

Mei Guoping1,2, Gong Yaling1,3, Wan Jianxiang1, Ji Kaiwen2   

  1. 1. School of Information Technology, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330032;
    2. Institute of Economic Development, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022;
    3. School of Economics and Management, Yuzhang Normal University, Nanchang 330103
  • Received:2019-05-05 Online:2019-10-28 Published:2019-11-05

Abstract:

Logistics industry is a basic and strategic industry of China's national economic development. Realizing the transformation and upgrading of logistics industry from factor-driven to efficiency-driven is an important issue to be solved urgently in the current development of logistics industry. It is of great significance to study the efficiency of logistics industry at the regional level. Taking the input-output indexes of transportation, logistics warehousing and postal industry as the research data, this paper uses three-stage DEA model to measure the efficiency of logistics industry in East China from 2012 to 2016. Empirical results show that without considering the influence of environment and random error, the efficiency of logistics industry in East China shows a spatial law of attenuation from coastal area to inland area. SFA regression analysis shows that environment and stochastic factors are important factors affecting the efficiency of logistics industry in East China. Increasing road mileage and residents' consumption level is not conducive to improving the efficiency of logistics industry. Increasing total retail sales of social consumer goods can promote the efficiency of logistics industry. The overall scale efficiency of logistics industry in East China keeps increasing. The average comprehensive efficiency of the adjusted logistics industry reaches 0.89. However, due to the large gap of pure technical efficiency, the efficiency of logistics industry among provinces presents obvious spatial heterogeneity.

Key words: logistics industry, efficiency measurement, three-stage DEA model, East China