Martin Stuermer

I am an Economist in the Research Department (Commodities Unit) at the International Monetary Fund and an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. My research interests are macroeconomics with a focus on energy, commodities, and natural resources. I study the fluctuations and trends in energy, mineral and agricultural commodity markets from a long-run perspective. In my position at the IMF, I work on natural gas and oil markets as well as the energy transition, in particular its implications on metals markets. I am also on a one-off assignment to the Guinea team and just completed my first mission to the country. I hold a PhD economics from the University of Bonn, Germany, and worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 2014 to 2021. 

News:

• Our new IMF Working Paper on The Power of Prices: How Fast Do Commodity Markets Adjust to Shocks? (with Christian Bogmans, Andrea Pescatori, Ivan Petrella and Ervin Prifti) just got published. Here is the related IMF World Economic Outlook (Commodities Special Feature)!

• Our IMF Climate Note on “Key Challenges Faced by Fossil Fuel Exporters During the Energy Transition.” (with Diego Mesa Puyo, Augustus Panton, Tarun Sridhar, Christoph Ungerer, Alice Tianbo Zhang) is finally out!

• Our paper on "Energy Transition Metals: Bottleneck for Net-Zero Emissions?" (with L. Boer and A. Pescatori) is published at the Journal of the European Economics Association. See The Economist article and Dan Yergin citing it in his WSJ editorial.

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