evidence in Central and Eastern Europe of the effects of geographical proximity and agglomeration on the productivity of … significant effect on the productivity of domestic firms in the glass sector at a 5% level. The effect of geographical proximity …

importance of firm-level productivity and distance-related transaction costs as driving forces of FDI. Yet the timing of FDI has … strongly depends on firm productivity immediately after the political and economic regime change, but less so with diminishing …. -- Multinational enterprises ; firm-level productivity ; distance ; timing of FDI …