Christian Bogmans

Last Updated: November 08, 2016

Christian Bogmans

Christian Bogmans is an economist in the Research Department (Commodities Unit) at the IMF. His main research interests are in the fields of (1) environmental and energy economics and (2) international trade, with an emphasis on the relationship between trade, natural resources and the environment. Before joining the IMF in Washington DC, he was a lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/christianwjbogmans/

Fluent In: Dutch.

Education:

PhD Economics, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 2011.

MSc Research in International Economics and Business (cum laude), University of Groningen, 2008.

BSc. Economics (cum laude), Radboud University Nijmegen, 2005.


Previous Experience:

Lecturer, University of Birmingham, 2014-2016.

Postdoctoral researcher, VU University Amsterdam, 2011-2014.

Visiting Scholar, The University of British Columbia, March-June 2013.


Field of Expertise:

International Trade

Energy and Environmental Economics

IMF Books and Working Papers:

Energy, Efficiency Gains and Economic Development: When Will Global Energy Demand Saturate? , Working Paper No. 2020/253 , November 20, 2020

The Globalization of Farmland: Theory and Empirical Evidence , Working Paper No. 18/145 , June 22, 2018

Publications in Journals (Refereed)

Optimal Adaptation of Thermal Power Plants: the (Ir)relevance of Climate (Change) Information (with G. Dijkema and M. van Vliet), Energy Economics, 2017, vol. 62, pp. 1- 18.

Can the Terms of Trade Externality Outweigh Free-Riding? The Role of Vertical Linkages, Journal of International Economics, 2015, vol. 95(1), pp. 115-128.

Climate Adaptation of Interconnected Infrastructures: a Framework for Supporting Governance (with L.A. Bollinger, G.P.J. Dijkema, M. Snelder and others), Regional Environmental Change, 2013, pp. 1-13.

Does Corruption Discourage International Trade? (joint with E. de Jong), European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, vol. 27 (2), pp. 385-398.

The Pollution Haven Hypothesis, a Dynamic Perspective (joint with C. Withagen), Revue Economique, 2010, vol. 61 (1), pp. 103-130.

Christian Bogmans

Christian Bogmans is an economist in the Research Department (Commodities Unit) at the IMF. His main research interests are in the fields of (1) environmental and energy economics and (2) international trade, with an emphasis on the relationship between trade, natural resources and the environment. Before joining the IMF in Washington DC, he was a lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/christianwjbogmans/

Fluent In: Dutch.

Education:

PhD Economics, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 2011.

MSc Research in International Economics and Business (cum laude), University of Groningen, 2008.

BSc. Economics (cum laude), Radboud University Nijmegen, 2005.


Previous Experience:

Lecturer, University of Birmingham, 2014-2016.

Postdoctoral researcher, VU University Amsterdam, 2011-2014.

Visiting Scholar, The University of British Columbia, March-June 2013.


Field of Expertise:

International Trade

Energy and Environmental Economics

IMF Books and Working Papers:

Energy, Efficiency Gains and Economic Development: When Will Global Energy Demand Saturate? , Working Paper No. 2020/253 , November 20, 2020

The Globalization of Farmland: Theory and Empirical Evidence , Working Paper No. 18/145 , June 22, 2018

Publications in Journals (Refereed)

Optimal Adaptation of Thermal Power Plants: the (Ir)relevance of Climate (Change) Information (with G. Dijkema and M. van Vliet), Energy Economics, 2017, vol. 62, pp. 1- 18.

Can the Terms of Trade Externality Outweigh Free-Riding? The Role of Vertical Linkages, Journal of International Economics, 2015, vol. 95(1), pp. 115-128.

Climate Adaptation of Interconnected Infrastructures: a Framework for Supporting Governance (with L.A. Bollinger, G.P.J. Dijkema, M. Snelder and others), Regional Environmental Change, 2013, pp. 1-13.

Does Corruption Discourage International Trade? (joint with E. de Jong), European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, vol. 27 (2), pp. 385-398.

The Pollution Haven Hypothesis, a Dynamic Perspective (joint with C. Withagen), Revue Economique, 2010, vol. 61 (1), pp. 103-130.