Elisa Parisi-Capone is a senior economist for Finance & Banking and Western Europe. Her areas of research include the economics of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) with a special focus on periphery countries and intra-EMU imbalances. Her coverage also focuses on banking regulation and capital markets from a systemic risk perspective in addition to securitizations, credit derivatives and structured finance—her analysis on the subject has been cited by the financial press and the Congressional Oversight Panel. Previously, Elisa spent two years as a financial markets analyst at the Swiss Federal Finance Administration in Berne, Switzerland. Elisa holds a master's degree in economics from New York University and a Lizentiat in economics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Recent Blog Posts by Elisa Parisi-Capone
- Macroeconomic Imbalance Scoreboard – A Visual Ranking Among 11 EZ Countries
- How Would Portugal Have Fared in the Past Decade Under the Debt Rule?
- Will the Euro Survive the Debt Crisis?
- Preparing for the December 9 Summit
- ECB Exit Strategy and Counterparty Risk
- Latin American CDS: Fully Recovered, What are the Risks?
- Financial Meltdown Reshaping Wall Street
- Goldman’s Super-SIV: Some Questions
- Is the Corporate Sector EMU’s Achilles’ Heel?
- The Black Swan in the European Money Market
- No Credit Crunch in the Euro Area?


