Other people's money [electronic resource] : debt denomination and financial instability in emerging market economies / edited by Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausmann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The pain of original sin -- Must original sin cause macroeconomic damnation? -- A fiscal perspective on currency crises and "original sin" -- Original sin, balance-sheet crises, and the roles of international lending -- How original sin was overcome : the evolution of external debt denominated in domestic currencies in the United States and the British dominions, 1800-2000 -- Old sins : exchange clauses and European foreign lending in the nineteenth century -- Why do emerging economies borrow in foreign currency? -- Why do countries borrow the way they borrow? -- The mystery of original sin -- Original sin : the road to redemption.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.