{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:02:48","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignacia Mercadal"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ignacia Mercadal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/files\/IMG_2548.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-175\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-175 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/files\/IMG_2548.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/files\/IMG_2548.jpeg 2855w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/files\/IMG_2548-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/files\/IMG_2548-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/files\/IMG_2548-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/files\/IMG_2548-200x250.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/files\/IMG_2548-300x375.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Ignacia Mercadal is an assistant professor in the<a href=\"https:\/\/economics.clas.ufl.edu\/\"> Department of Economics<\/a>. Her research focuses on industrial organization and energy economics. Before joining UF, Professor Mercadal was an assistant professor at Columbia University and a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.\u00a0She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on data analysis and econometrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Industrial Organization, Energy and Environmental Economics<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/ignaciamercadal\/\">Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Economics<br>\nUniversity of Florida<br>\nP.O. Box 117140<br>\nGainesville, FL 32611- 7320<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:imercadal@ufl.edu\">imercadal@ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1248,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/imercadal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}