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. During the 2025-2026 academic year I am visiting the London School of 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, Volume 215, 104753 (2024)

(with Michèle Belot and Xiaoying Liu)

Working papers

Earnings lost in the green transition: The costs of phasing out coal-fired power generation

Works in progress

Cross-border environmental regulation in the EU and green technology adoption abroad (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)