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Annual Report 2019

48 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. ANNUAL REPORT 2019
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