Abstract:

It is seen that the logistics sector provides various benefits to the national economy due to its contribution to national income and employment. In this context, the logistics sector has a great importance for countries to provide competitive advantage to each other thanks to the advantages it provides. In this paper, the nexus between economic growth and logistics sector of G-20 countries for the period 1997-2017 has been investigated by econometric methods. Accordingly, Total Internal Freight Transport (TIT) representing the logistics sector and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) representing economic growth were used. According to the findings of Pedroni Panel Cointegration test, it was found that the panels were not cointegrated in the long term. On the other hand, Canning and Pedroni panel causality test findings provide uncertain findings as to whether causality exists between panels. While Lambda- Pearson statistics point to the findings that there is two-way causality between the panels, Group Average statistics reached the conclusion that there is no causality in either direction.

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