The comprehensive pilot zone for cross-border e-commerce undertakes the important task of exploring new modes and new forms of business, which is of great significance in promoting the transformation and upgrading of the city's logistics industry. The article employs Chinese city panel data to construct a multi-period DID model and a threshold effect model for empirical testing, based on whether a city is set up as a comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zone as a quasi-natural experiment. It is found that the establishment of comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zones has a positive impact on the improvement of logistics capacity at the city level in China. The comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zone effectively reduces logistics costs and improves the speed and service quality of urban logistics by means of integrating logistics resources, improving the level of information technology, and strengthening international cooperation. When the population size of the city reaches a certain threshold, the logistics capacity improvement effect of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone is significant.

Wu Chunli, Jiang Na, Wang Qian, Wen Xuejiao. Threshold Effect Test of Cross-Border E-Commerce Promoting the Improvement of Urban Logistics Capacity. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2024) Vol. 6, Issue 10: 225-232. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2024.061033.

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