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.

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Customer data access and fintech entry: Early evidence from open banking
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- Finance and Fintech 
- Financial Regulation and Banking

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Assessing the impact of international sanctions on Russian oil exports
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- Energy 
- International trade 
- Politics and economics