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The Agglomeration of Bankruptcy / Efraim Benmelech, Nittai Bergman, Anna Milanez, Vladimir Mukharlyamov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benmelech, Efraim.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20254.
- NBER working paper series no. w20254
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.
- Summary:
- This paper identifies a new channel through which bankrupt firms impose negative externalities on non-bankrupt peers. The bankruptcy and liquidation of a retail chain weakens the economies of agglomeration in any given local area, reducing the attractiveness of retail centers for remaining stores leading to contagion of financial distress. We find that companies 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 non-bankrupt peers is higher when the affected stores are smaller and are operated by firms with poor financial health.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2014.
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