Quantifying the local spillovers of liquidation (Chapter 7) relative to reorganization (Chapter 11) ischallenging due to the inherent selection into bankruptcy regimes. For example, companies filing forChapter 7 directly may operate in declining areas, which could bias our estimate of local spillovers.To mitigate this selection issue, we focus only on firms that filed for Chapter 11 reorganization,and exploit the fact that a significant fraction (40%) of these firms are converted to Chapter 7liquidation subsequently. We then quantify the local spillovers of liquidation by estimating thefollowing specification: