Other people's money : debt denomination and financial instability in emerging market economies /

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Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Description:vii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy 3 has original dust jacket.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5580353
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Other authors / contributors:Eichengreen, Barry J.
Hausmann, Ricardo.
ISBN:0226194558 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies
  • 1. The Pain of Original Sin
  • 2. Must Original Sin Cause Macroeconomic Damnation?
  • 3. A Fiscal Perspective on Currency Crises and "Original Sin"
  • 4. Original Sin, Balance-Sheet Crises, and the Roles of International Lending
  • 5. How Original Sin Was Overcome: The Evolution of External Debt Denominated in Domestic Currencies in the United States and the British Dominions, 1800-2000
  • 6. Old Sins: Exchange Clauses and European Foreign Lending in the Nineteenth Century
  • 7. Why Do Emerging Economies Borrow in Foreign Currency?
  • 8. Why Do Countries Borrow the Way They Borrow?
  • 9. The Mystery of Original Sin
  • 10. Original Sin: The Road to Redemption
  • List of Contributors
  • Index