The Agglomeration of Bankruptcy
研究发现破产零售商的清算会削弱当地集聚经济，降低零售中心吸引力，导致财务困境传染，地理上邻近破产零售商的非破产企业更可能关闭门店。
This paper identifies a new channel through which bankrupt firms undergoing liquidation impose negative externalities on their nonbankrupt peers. The liquidation of a retail chain weakens the economies of agglomeration in any given local area, reducing the attractiveness of retail centers for remaining stores and leading to contagion of financial distress. We find that firms with greater geographic exposure to bankrupt retailers are more likely to close stores in affected areas. We further show that the effect of these externalities on nonbankrupt peers is higher when affected stores are smaller and are operated by firms in financial distress.Received December 16, 2015; editorial decision June 28, 2018 by Editor Philip Strahan.