Vaios Triantafyllou

Hello! My name is Vaios and I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Cornell University. My research interests are broadly in the fields of environmental and labor economics.

I am an engineer by training; I hold a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from Harvard University and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

You will find a copy of my CV here.

Publications

The non-green effects of going green: Local environmental and economic consequences of lithium extraction in Chile, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 103257 (2025)

(with Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco and Gonzalo Martínez)

Measuring the quality of a match, Labour Economics, 102568 (2024)

(with Michèle Belot and Xiaoying Liu)

Working papers

Phasing out coal plants, worker transitions, and green capacity expansion

Works in progress

Taxing carbon across borders: Trade, pass-through, and green technology adoption (JMP)

International Growth Centre (IGC) Research Grant

Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Research Grant

Demand for and effects of Islamic law on European Muslims: Evidence from Northern Greece

(with Vicky Fouka)

Informing overconfident and insecure job seekers

(with Michèle Belot, Bart de Koning, and Philipp Kircher)

Pre-registration

Policy work

Corporate due diligence, auto industry, and battery supply chains, Resources for the Future (RFF) Policy Report

(with Anthony Cheng and Beia Spiller)