Tania Babina
Assistant Professor of Business
Finance
Ph.D. in Finance, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2016; M.Sc. Finance, University of Alabama 2008; B.A. Economics, National Technical University KhPI, Ukraine, Summa Cum Laude 2005
Joined CBS in 2016
Office:
742
Kravis
E-mail:
[email protected]
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Professor Tania Babina joined the Columbia Business School in 2016. She received a Ph.D. from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Her research is at the juncture of corporate finance, labor economics, and entrepreneurship. More broadly, she studies inter-relationship between human capital and firm investment, financing, and organizational choices. Her current research explores drivers of entrepreneurship and factors predicting entrepreneurial success. Long-term, she seeks to understand how human capital affects the nature of a firm and firm boundaries. Professor Babina teaches the Entrepreneurial Finance course.
Teaching
Spring 2022
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Spring 2021
Entrepreneurial Finance
(MBA)
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Spring 2020
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Entrepreneurial Finance
(MBA)
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Spring 2018
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Entrepreneurial Finance & Private Equity
(EMBA)
Research
Journal articles
Heterogeneous Taxes and Limited Risk Sharing: Evidence from Municipal Bonds
In The Review of Financial Studies
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Chotibhak Jotikasthira, Christian Lundblad, Tarun Ramadorai
Destructive Creation at Work: How Financial Distress Spurs Entrepreneurship
In The Review of Financial Studies
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina
Web-only articles
Artificial Intelligence, Firm Growth, and Product Innovation
In SSRN
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Anastassia Fedyk, Alex Xi He, James Hodson
Working papers
Crisis Innovation: Evidence from the Great Depression
(2021)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Asaf Bernstein, Filippo Mezzanotti
The Color of Money: Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Alex Xi He, Sabrina Howell, Elisabeth Perlman, Joseph Staudt
Friends during Hard Times: Evidence from the Great Depression
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Diego Garcia, Geoff Tate
IPOs, Human Capital, and Labor Reallocation
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Paige Ouimet, Rebecca Zarutskie
Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Sabrina Howell
Pay, Employment, and Dynamics of Young Firms
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Wenting Ma, Christian Moser, Paige Ouimet, Rebecca Zarutskie
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
‘Made in America’ Is about to Make a Roaring Comeback. That's Good and Bad.
Russia’s Ruble Rebound Raises Questions of Sanctions’ Impact
Cutting Russia out of the Global Economy Means Higher Prices, a Slower Recovery, and a Whole New Global Power Structure: 'We Don't Really Have a Playbook for How This Might Work'
‘Do the Right Thing’: How US, Allies United to Punish Putin
Backing Winners in the Face of Adversity