On December 20^th, 2018, Student Scientific Society (SSS) of YSUIB Faculty of Economics  organized already the third intellectual game, attended by first and third-year students of “Finance” and “Economics” specialties.

Jury members were Tigranuhi Tirabyan, 3rd year student of “Economics” specialty and Luiza Madatyan, 2nd year student of “Finance” specialty.

The game consisted of 4 rounds. The first round included 10 professional questions with a selective answer.

The second, the “Hidden Words” round, the participants must find professional terms in a mixed-text table.

 The third round included logical questions related to their profession.

In the last, fourth stage, the participants had to solve the economic crossword.

After the strong competition, the “Economist” team became the winner with 36 points (Ghazaryan Sevada, Khachatryan Sose, Ohanyan Arshak), and awarded with a diploma.

On December 18^th, 2018, at YSUIB Faculty of Humanities, for 2nd-year students of “Foreign Language and Literature”, “Armenian Language and Literature” specialties, Ani Kostandyan, lecturer of the Department of Tourism Management and Cultural Studies, organized an open lesson dedicated to the “Armenian culture”.

The lesson was attended by Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities K. Poghosyan, Assistant of the Department of Tourism Management and Cultural Studies, A. Ulikhanyan, the administrative staff of the university and students .

During the lesson, the lecturer  presented Armenian culture stages, Armenian culture in the Ararat kingdom (Urartu), during the Hellenistic period, the Armenian medieval culture (5-14 centuries), armenian culture of 15-18th centuries, Armenian culture in the new era (19th-20th centuries), Armenian culture in the 20th century and after the independence. Another item of discussion was the Armenian Renaissance.

The students performed literary and musical performances  presenting poems and songs based on Armenian classics (Narekatsi, Kuchak, Sayat-Nova, Komitas, Metsarents, Sahyan, Sevak and others).

At the end of the lesson, the participants watched a film about  family.

 On December 18^th, 2018, at YSU Ijevan Branch Faculty of Economics, a seminar-discussion on RA monetary policy was held, conducted by the representatives of the Central Bank of Armenia, Head of Monetary Policy Department Vahagn Grigoryan, Director of Dilijan Training and Research Center Armen Nurbenkyan, Economist Arthur Ghalachakhyan of the Economic Research Department.

It was organized in partnership with the Director of Dilijan  Research Center Armen Nurbenkyan and YSUIB Faculty of Economics, Student Scientific Society and Student Council.

During the  seminar-discussion, the essence of the policy of the Central Bank of Armenia was thoroughly discussed. It was noted that until 2006, the CB  aimed at monetary aggregates. Further research has shown that this method has many problems and low efficiency, so in 2006 the transition to inflation targeted.

Another item of discussion was the issue of unemployment in Armenia, the level of premium inflation, as well as public expectations of inflation. The summary of each quarterly survey revealed clearly that public expectations for inflation in 2001-2016 were high enough (about 65 percent of respondents had inflation expectations), and expectations of inflation in 2016-2018 are approaching 10 percent with some fluctuations.

The seimar-discussion was in an engaging and interactive atmosphere and the participants asked questions about not only monetary policy, but also  other sectors of  economy.

 On December 17th, 2018, within the framework of “Microeconomics” course, 3rd- year students of YSUIB Faculty of “Economics”, made a cognitive visit to Dilijan  Research and Training Center of the Central Bank of Armenia.

The students first visited the Museum of  Research and Training Center, got acquainted with the coins, statues of Alexander the Great, Artashesians, Cilicia, Armenian and other kingdoms, as well as 2018 issued third-generation banknotes.

The third-year students also participated in a lecture with interesting statistical materials, during which, they touched upon the CBA policy, paradigm change after the 2008 crisis and macro-prudential policy