Education

• Ph.D. Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville
• M.A. Economics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
• B.A. Economics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki

Research areas

• Production economics
• Natural resource economics
• Water use efficiency and productivity
• Applied econometrics
• Technology adoption

Research projects

• 2023-2027: RETOUCH NEXUS (EU Horizon Project)
• 2022-2024: NetCSA-bio (BMBF Projekt)
• 2020-2024: SIGMA-Nexus (PRIMA/EU H2020 Project)
• 2020-2024: PONDERFUL (EU H2020 Projekt)
• 2018-2022: BioMonitor (EU H2020 Project)

Teaching

• Advanced Seminar Economics, Policy & Econometrics: Productivity, Efficiency and Risk (M.Sc.)
• Advanced Seminar Economics & Policy: Advanced Resource Economics (M.Sc.)
• Technology and Innovation in the Agricultural Sector - Theoretical and Empirical Approaches (Ph.D.)
• Economics of Water Use, Regulation and Markets (M.Sc.)

Publications

Scientific papers

• Zhu, X., Vrachioli, M., Baldoni, E., M’Barek, R., & Sauer, J. (2024). Is biorefinery establishment enhancing the EU labour market on a regional level? Regional Studies, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2292251
• Zhu, B. X., Vrachioli, M., and Sauer, J. (2023), Regional Employment Impacts of Biorefineries in the EU. EuroChoices. https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-692X.12417
• Ait Sidhoum, A.; Vrachioli, M.; Guesmi, B. and Gil J. M. (2023). The role of rational decisions in technical inefficiency analysis of Spanish pig farms: The influence of water use management. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.107278
• Halytsia, O., Vrachioli, M., Janik, K. , Sitek, S., Wojtal, G., Imig, A., Rein, A. and Sauer, J. (2022) Assessing Economic Feasibility of Managed Aquifer Recharge Schemes: Evidence from Cost-benefit Analysis in Poland, Water Resour Manage 36, 5241–5258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-022-03303-0
• Rodriguez, O., Vrachioli, M. and Sauer, J. (2022) Payments for environmental services and coffee production in Colombia: Technical efficiency across the world heritage status borders, Ecological Economics, 200, 107531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107531
• Canessa, C., Vavvos, A., Triliva, S., Kafkalas, I., Vrachioli, M. and Sauer, J. (2022) Implementing a combined Delphi and Focus Group qualitative methodology in Nexus research designs—The case of the WEFE Nexus in Apokoronas, Crete. PLoS ONE 17(7): e0271443. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271443
• Imig, A., Szabo, Z., Halytsia, O., Vrachioli, M., Kleinert, V. and Rein, A. (2022) A review on risk assessment in managed aquifer recharge, Integr Environ Assess Manag, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4584
• Kardung, M., Cingiz, K., Costenoble, O., Delahaye, R., Heijman, W., Lovric, M., van Leeuwen, M., M'Barek, R., van Meijl, H., Piotrowski, S., Ronzon, T., Sauer, J., Verhoog, D., Verkerk, P.J., Vrachioli, M., Wesseler, J.H.H. and Zhu, B.X. (2021) Development of the Circular Bioeconomy: Drivers and Indicators", Sustainability, 13, pp. 413-437. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010413https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010413
• Gondhalekar, D., Hu, H.Y., Chen, Z., Tayal, S., Bekchanov, M., Sauer, J., Vrachioli, M., Al-Azzawi, M., Patalong, H., Uhl, H.D., Grambow, M. and Drewes, J.E. (2021) The Emerging Environmental Economic Implications of the Urban Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus: Water Reclamation with Resource Recovery in China, India, and Europe, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.590
• Vrachioli, M., Stefanou, S. E. & V. Tzouvelekas (2021). Impact Evaluation of Alternative Irrigation Technology in Crete: Correcting for Selectivity Bias. Environmental and Resource Economics. In Press.
• West, T., Wilson, C., Vrachioli, M. & K. Grogan (2019). Carbon payments for extended rotations in forest plantations: Conflicting insights from a theoretical model. Ecological Economics. 163, 70-76.

Book chapters

• Ait Sidhoum, A. and Vrachioli, M. (2022) Agriculture and Sustainability In: Brinkmann, R. (ed), The Palgrave handbook of global sustainability, pp. 1-23, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
• Ait Sidhoum, A., Vrachioli, M. and Sauer, J. (2021) Chapter 7: Agricultural mechanization and farm labor development, in: James, Jr., H. S. (ed.), Handbook on the Human Impact of Agriculture, pp. 102-118, Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Vrachioli, M. and Stefanou S. (2021) Water's Contribution to Agricultural Productivity over Space, Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Christopher F. Parmeter and Robin C. Sickles (ed.), Advances in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, pp. 103-123, Springer.