... 3describes the data we use, provides a characterization of our sample of financial institutions, documents various financial data (balance sheet and income data for end-1996), and gives an overview of ... banks, merchantbanks and specialized banksfrom five crisis-affected East Asian countries: Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. The breakdown of the data by country isas follows: ... strictly a CAMEL variable, size has 11 These include the Financial Restructuring Authority (FRA) in Thailand, the Indonesian BankingRestructuring Agency (IBRA), and Danaharta in Malaysia.12...