Annual Report 2019
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International
CENTRAL BANK OF ARMENIA
In 2019, a number of symposiums, conferences, workshops,
trainings, forums, at both regional and international level, were
organized in the Dilijan TRC. Specifically:
The third year's two rounds of the "Central Bank and Commercial
Bank Employee Certification” program took place. It is organized
by the joint efforts and funding by the Dilijan Training and Research
Center, the Netherlands Development Financial Organization,
FMO, and De Nederlandsche Bank. In December, the Dilijan TRC
hosted the next round of the said program the participants
benefited lectures delivered by professor Florencio Lopez-de-
Silanes (SKEMA Business School and National Bureau of Economic
Research), professor Joseph Mc Cahery (Tilburg University),
professor Wolf Wagner (Rotterdam University School of
Management). The 2019 program included a new course on
leadership, led by professor Erik de Haan (VU University and
Ashridge Business School). The Certification Program was
attended by employees of central banks and commercial banks of
Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
and other countries.
The 22nd Annual Central Bank Macromodeling Conference on
"Expanding Boundaries of Monetary Policy" was organized and
held from September 11 to 13, 2019, which was attended by
more than 110 participants from around 30 countries. The
keynote speakers were Professor Maurice Obstfeld (University of
California, former IMF Chief Economist), Assaf Razin (Tel Aviv
University lecturer), Douglas Laxton (international expert,
formerly chief of IMF Economic Modeling Division) and Tomn
Holub (Board member of the Czech National Bank).
The Summit of Minds, held annually in Chamonix, France, took
place this year in Armenia, at the Dilijan TRC. Armenia is the first
country to host this event outside of Chamonix. The event was
attended by more than a hundred prominent Armenian and
foreign public figures, scientists and analysts, businessmen and
entrepreneurs.
An international conference on financial stability indicators was
held in June at the Dilijan Research Center. At the conference, the
IMF expert presented the latest international developments related
to the calculation and use of the financial stability indicators (FSI)
as well as the challenges and ways to improve FSI. About 30
specialists from 7 countries talked about how to calculate and use
FSI and touched upon relevant methodological problems and
possible solutions.
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