Welcome! I pursued my PhD degree in Finance at Schulich School of Business, York University, and was Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Rady School of Management, UC San Diego.
My primary research area is corporate finance, with related work in behavioral finance, sustainable finance, corporate innovation, and applications of AI/ML in finance.
You can find my CV here.
Email: elitaba@schulich.yorku.ca
Conference and Seminar Acceptances
American Finance Association (AFA) PhD Poster Session, 2026
INFORMS Conference on Financial Engineering and Fintech, 2026
Financial Management Association (FMA) Doctoral Student Consortium, 2026
Midwest Finance Association (MFA) Annual Meeting, 2026
Northern Finance Association (NFA) Annual Meeting, 2026
3rd AI in Finance Conference, 2026
WPI–FLAME FinTech Conference, 2026
Southern Finance Association (SFA) Annual Meeting, 2026
Southwestern Finance Association (SWFA) Annual Meeting, 2026
33rd Finance Forum, 2026
Financial Management & Accounting Research Conference (FMARC) Doctoral Colloquium, 2026
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, Session: Consequences of Strategic Communications, 2025
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, Session: New Ideas in FinTech, 2025
Rady School of Management, UC San Diego, 2025
DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, 2025
Schulich School of Business, York University, 2025
Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Ontario Tech University, 2025
Conference Attendance (Past and Forthcoming)
Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2026
Northern Finance Association (NFA) Annual Meeting, Quebec City, QC, Canada, 2026
Southwestern Finance Association (SWFA) Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2026
The Midwest Finance Association (MFA), Chicago, IL, March 2026
American Finance Association (AFA), Philadelphia, PA, January 2026
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Behavioral Finance Working Group Meeting, Cambridge, MA, November 2025
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2025
Western Finance Association (WFA), Snowbird, UT, June 2025
American Finance Association (AFA), San Francisco, CA, January 2025
Northern Finance Association (NFA), Montréal, QC, Canada, September 2024
Northern Finance Association (NFA), Toronto, ON, Canada, September 2023