Finally, we examine three mechanisms through which liquidation may spill over to neighboringfirms. First, liquidation may reduce customer traffic to the area. This will cause negative spilloverson nearby stores if those stores relied on these customers for their own demand (Pashigian and Gould(1998), Gould et al. (2005), Benmelech et al. (2014)).5 In the second mechanism, liquidation mayreduce business synergies between proximate firms. As highlighted by prior literature, such synergiesmay arise through the reduction of production costs pertaining to three key factors: goods, knowledge, and workers (Moretti (2011), Glaeser and Gottlieb (2009), and Duranton and Puga (2004)).Specifically, by locating near firms in similar industries, businesses can reduce transportation costsof goods and services, increase the flow of ideas and skills between firms, and create thick labor markets to better match workers and firms. By forcing the removal of a business from a local market,liquidation may disrupt these synergies and agglomeration linkages. Finally, in the third mechanism,it might be the case that the liquidation of an establishment simply reduces local demand for goodsand services, as the employees of that establishment lose their jobs and may relocate to other areas(Moretti (2010)).