OREANDA-NEWS.  July 23, 2014. In the scope of a promising cooperation established between the Central Bank of Armenia and the Harvard University, the CBA initiated a unique program by hosting three interns from the University - Jordan Bryant, Juan Aparicio and Daniel Gibbs, who are taking their internship in the Dilijan Research and Training Center.

The students have already managed to have meetings and discussions with representatives of local and international financial organizations and be informed about the economic situation in Armenia.

Throughout their two-months internship, the students will conduct research works on Armenian economic issues worth of attention, focusing particularly on the topics “Possible  Effects of Harmonization on Financial Services Sector”, “Effects of Economic Integration on Bilateral FDI Flows” and “Determinants of the Attitudes Towards Regional Integration”. Moreover, Jordan Bryant’s internship is organized in the Legal Department, and Daniel Gibbs and Juan Aparicio are interns in the Economic Research Department.

The Central Bank of Armenia has equipped the Dilijan Research and Training Center with all kinds of working and technical facilities and provided the availability of data bases necessary for successful research.

The Central Bank of Armenia values greatly the international multidimensional collaboration and is hopeful that the one between the CBA and one of the world’s best five universities will have strong base and the program will be sustainable. The implementation of the internship program will be  an additional basis for establishing long-term cooperation ties between Dilijan Research and Training Center and other international prestigious universities and Research Centers as well.