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:
814
Uris
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 2021
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Entrepreneurial Finance
(MBA)
Spring 2020
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Entrepreneurial Finance
(MBA)
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Spring 2018
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Entrepreneurial Finance & Private Equity
(EMBA)
Fall 2017
Summer 2017
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Spring 2017
Entrepreneurial Finance
(EMBA)
Entrepreneurial Finance & Private Equity
(EMBA)
Research
Journal articles
Artificial Intelligence, Firm Growth, and Industry Concentration
In Quarterly Journal of Economics
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Anastassia Fedyk, Alex Xi He, James Hodson
Working papers
The Color of Money: Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research
(2022)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Alex Xi He, Sabrina Howell, Elisabeth Perlman, Joseph Staudt
Crisis Innovation
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Asaf Bernstein, Filippo Mezzanotti
Heterogeneous Taxes and Limited Risk Sharing: Evidence from Municipal Bonds
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Chotibhak Jotikasthira, Christian Lundblad, Tarun Ramadorai
Going Entrepreneurial? IPOs and New Firm Creation
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Paige Ouimet, Rebecca Zarutskie
When Finance Leaves Does Enterprise Follow? The Lasting Impact of Bank Distress on Entrepreneurship
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Lizzy Berger
Destructive Creation at Work: How Financial Distress Spurs Entrepreneurship
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina
Friends during Hard Times: Evidence from the Great Depression
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Tania Babina, Diego Garcia, Geoff Tate