Maria Clara Marques Soares Banco de Portugal Economic Research Department +351 21 313 01 96 Av. Almirante Reis, 71-6th floor [email protected] 1150-012 Lisbon, Portugal Education Graduation in Economics (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), 1977-1982 Post-graduation studies in Economics, Business Administration and Finance (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), respectively 1984-1986, 1986-1988 and 2003. Employment Banco de Portugal, Since 1984 Economist, Economic Research Department (Previously, Economist at the Statistics Department, Statistics and Economic Research Department and Foreign Current Transactions Department) Previous employment: TLP – Telecommunications Company of Lisbon and Oporto, 1983 Economist, Department of Information Systems Research Interests Macroeconomics Refereed Publications Other Publications "Financial flows in the Portuguese economy" (with Barata and Garcia), Banco de Portugal, Quarterly Bulletin, June 1991 "Quantitative indicators from survey results: trends of export volume", Banco de Portugal, Quarterly Bulletin, March 1993 “Modelling of an indicator for credit scoring of non-financial corporations – a preliminary research based on discriminant analysis”, Banco de Portugal, Financial Stability Report, 2006