Juliana Yim
Research Fellow
Faculty of Business
RMIT
Juliana.yim@rmit.edu.au

Juliana recently completed her doctorate in Economics and Finance at RMIT University. Her PhD thesis was on forecasting financial crises using a neural network approach. Part of her thesis was published in a paper called “A Comparison of Australian Financial Service Failure Models: Hybrid Neural Networks, Logit Models and Discriminant Analysis.” The paper received the Barclays Global Investors prize at the 15th Annual Australasian Finance and Banking Conference in 2002.

Juliana also has bachelor and masters degrees in Economics from the University of Sao Paulo (USP). She has worked as a credit analyst at ABN-Amro Bank and as an economic researcher in a project coordinated by BOOZ-ALLEN & HAMILTON/FIPE-USP for the Brazilian government. She is currently working as a market research analyst at Roberts Research Group. Her research interests are in Money and Banking, Credit Risk Analysis, Financial Econometrics, Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Microeconometrics and Market Research.