“…Some studies examine the effect of crash risk on the speed of leverage adjustment (An et al, 2015), financial cost (Gu et al, 2019), crash risk within business groups' future CEO power (Harper et al, 2020), government subsidies (Teng et al, 2020), and audit decisions (Chu et al, 2019; Hackenbrack et al, 2014; Lee, 2022). Others examine the spread of crash risk within a business group and along the supply chain (Kwon et al, 2019; Qiu et al, 2019). As crash risk implies the release of hidden adverse information by firms, it also signals poor corporate governance.…”