Ignacia Mercadal
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Florida. My research focuses on industrial organization and energy economics. Before joining UF, I was an assistant professor at Columbia University and a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Here is my CV.
Working Papers
Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector, with Alexander MacKay (SSRN, MIT CEPR Working Paper) (Previously circulated as "Shades of Integration: The Restructuring of the U.S. Electricity Markets")
Publications
Dynamic Competition and Arbitrage in Electricity Markets: The Role of Financial Players , AEJ: Microeconomics, forthcoming (SSRN)
Limits to Arbitrage in Electricity Markets: A Case Study of MISO, with John Birge, Ali Hortaçsu, and Michael Pavlin. Energy Economics 75, 518-533
Contact:
ignaciamercadal@gmail.com, imercadal@ufl.edu
University of Florida
Department of Economics
PO Box 117140, 332 MAT
Gainesville, FL 32611