... countries (the Czech Republic, India, the Republic of Korea, South Africa, and Thailand) and balance sheets for four (Croatia, the Czech Republic, Israel, and Korea). The time intervals for the data ... with data for the 1980s. Bond financing rose for the U.S., the U.K., and Japan, and was broadly unchanged for the other countries during the 1980s and 1990s (Table 10). Note that there are differences ... describes the impact of a crisis on the level and composition of GDP and the relationship between this impact and corporate financial structure. The analysis is based on 59 crisis bank and currency...