Tania Babina
- Assistant Professor of Business
- Finance Division

- Areas of Expertise
- AI and Business Analytics , Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Labor Markets
- Contact
- Office: 742 Kravis
- E-mail: [email protected]
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.
- Education
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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
- 2016
All Activities
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Journal Article
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“Heterogeneous Taxes and Limited Risk Sharing: Evidence from Municipal Bonds.”
The Review of Financial Studies
vol.
34
,
(January 01, 2021):
509
-568
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Journal Article
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“Destructive Creation at Work: How Financial Distress Spurs Entrepreneurship.”
The Review of Financial Studies
vol.
33
,
(September 01, 2020):
4061
-4101
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Working Paper
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Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition. February 28, 2022.
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Working Paper
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Does Antitrust Enforcement Affect Industry Dynamics? Evidence from 40 Years of US DOJ Lawsuits,. January 01, 2022.
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Working Paper
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Crisis Innovation: Evidence from the Great Depression. November 10, 2021.
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Working Paper
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The Color of Money: Federal vs. Industry Funding of University Research. November 22, 2020.
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Working Paper
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Friends during Hard Times: Evidence from the Great Depression. August 06, 2020.
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Working Paper
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IPOs, Human Capital, and Labor Reallocation. June 01, 2020.
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Working Paper
Babina, Tania and Sabrina Howell
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Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D. April 27, 2020.
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Working Paper
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Pay, Employment, and Dynamics of Young Firms. November 12, 2019.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
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“Artificial Intelligence, Firm Growth, and Product Innovation.”
SSRN
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November 11, 2021.
- Type
- Course
B8345: Entrepreneurial Finance
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- Course
B7345: Entrepreneurial Finance
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