A Research on the Mediating Role of Foreign Direct Investments of Logistics Sector on the Relationship between Global Competitiveness Index with Gross Domestic Product and Exports

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 1, 40 - 68, 31.03.2025

İbrahim Ethem Dağdeviren , Şakir Mirza

https://doi.org/10.30798/makuiibf.1378637

Abstract

Exports, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) are very important concepts for countries to achieve their strategic, political and economic goals and to have stable growth. The Global Competitiveness Index publishes by the World Economic Forum also has a great impact on the decisions of foreign investors and provides comparative information to investors on different issues about the country where investment is desired. At this study, the relationship between Türkiye's global competitiveness index ranking with exports and GDP data and whether foreign direct investments in the logistics sector have a mediating role at this relationship is investigated. SAS software package is used to analyse the data and Structural Equation Model is established. In this framework, it is determined that Türkiye's global competitiveness index ranking affects the logistics sector foreign direct investments and GDP. It is also concluded that there is a significant relationship between export values and GDP data. It has been determined that foreign investments in the logistics sector have no effect on exports and GDP data, and the ranking of the index has no effect on export values. In addition, FDI in the logistics sector have a mediating role in the relationship between the global competitiveness index and GDP but doesn't have a mediating role relationship between exports and GDP and between the global competitiveness index and exports. Within the framework of the results obtained, it is important to increase the gross domestic product by achieving a good ranking in the global competition index in terms of Türkiye's goals of becoming one of the top ten economies and becoming a logistics hub, and for this purpose, it is important to focus on foreign direct investments in the logistics sector.

Keywords

Global Competitiveness Index, Logistics Sector, Foreign Direct Investment, Export Data, Gross Domestic Product

Ethical Statement

Ethics Committee approval was not required for this study. The authors declare that the study was conducted in accordance with research and publication ethics. The authors confirm that no part of the study was generated, either wholly or in part, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. The authors declare that there are no financial conflicts of interest involving any institution, organization, or individual associated with this article. Additionally, there are no conflicts of interest among the authors. The authors affirm that they contributed equally to all aspects of the research.

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