Dr. Movsisyan joined AUA in 2013. He started his professional career at the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) and worked at the Monetary Police Department (2005-2006), Statistics Department (2007-2015), and Economic Research Department (2015-2020) and left CBA in 2020. He has participated in and presented methodological and applied research papers at numerous national and international conferences. He has been a member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) for 5-6 years. Dr. Movsisyan is a co-founder of Datamotus LLC, a company that provides Data mining and statistical analysis services.
Higher Education:
- Diploma in Economics, Armenian State Institute of Economics, 1999-2004 ,
- Ph.D. in Economics, Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI), 2007.
Courses taught:
- BUS 110 - Applied Statistics
- BUS 50 - Pre-term Quantitative Methods
- BUS 320 - Data Analysis for Business Decisions
- BUS 321 - Data Mining for Business
- ECON 310 - Economic Statistics
- CS 107 – Probability
- CS 108 - Statistics
- DS 110 - Statistics 2
Areas of specialization:
- Statistical Analysis
- Econometric Analysis
- Data Science
Publications:
1. Accuracy of Expectations in Business Surveys
Martin Galstyan and Vahe Movsisyan, Central Bank of Armenia
2017 61st ISI World Statistics Congress, Marrakech, Morocco:
https://www.bis.org/ifc/events/wsc_isi/ips023_galstyan_paper.pdf
2. Economic Policy Uncertainty for Armenia
Armenian Economic Association 2018 annual Conference, June 15, 2018
http://www.aea.am/files/papers/w1805.pdf
3. The Relationship between Education and the Dimensions of Social Capital in Armenia
Vahe Movsisyan, Central Bank of Armenia
Social Capital: Definitions, Applications, Cultural contexts: CRRC-Armenia 2013 Conference on Social Capital Proceedings, 6 June 2013
https://www.crrc.am/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CRRC-Social_Capital-Conference.pdf (pp 26-39)
4. Social Engagement in Armenia
Vahe Movsisyan, Central Bank of Armenia
Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) – Armenia: A program of Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Yerevan, December 24, 2012,
https://www.academia.edu/5900839/Social_engagement_in_Armenia
5. Quantification of qualitative data: the case of the Central Bank of Armenia
Martin Galstyan and Vahe Movsisyan, Central Bank of Armenia
IFC Bulletin No 33, The IFC's contribution to the 57th ISI Session, Durban, July 2010
(https://www.bis.org/ifc/publ/ifcb33t.pdf)
6. Consumer Confidence Survey in Armenia
Martin Galstyan and Vahe Movsisyan, Central Bank of Armenia
IFC Bulletin No 30: The use of surveys by central banks, July 2009
(https://www.bis.org/ifc/publ/ifcb30d.pdf#page=43 )
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