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Dr. Rebel A. Cole is a Professor of Finance and Real Estate in the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University. Since July 2003, he has been teaching MBA-level courses in financial management, corporate governance and valuation, as well as the capstone finance class for undergraduate finance majors.
Prior to coming to DePaul, Dr. Cole taught at the University of New South Wales in Australia and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. During his career, he has taught finance in six different countries (Australia, Bahrain, China, New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.S.).
Dr. Cole is a frequent commentator in the financial media, with more than two dozen appearances during the past year.
Dr. Cole received his PhD in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilll in 1988. For the next ten years, he worked as a staff economist at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (now the Office of Thrift Supervision), where he worked on the 1980s S&L crisis; at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where he worked on the 1990s banking crisis; and at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC, where he oversaw the design, development and implementation of the System for Estimating Examination Ratings (SEER)--the Fed's primary system for offsite monitoring of banks and bank holding companies--and the Survey of Small Business Finances.
Since leaving the Board of Governors in 1997, Dr.Cole has served as a special advisor to the Carribbean Technical Assistance Center, the International Monetary Fund, the Middle East Technical Assistance Center, USAid and the World Bank, providing technical assistance to Central Banks in developing countries that include the Bahamas, Cape Verde, China, Ghana, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Palestine, the Philippines, Russia, Syria, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Yemen. Dr. Cole has participated in more than 40 international missions to these countries to assist in the development of stress tests, financial stability indicators, and off-site monitoring systems for commercial banks and other financial institutions. During August 2008 and May 2009, Dr. Cole was a visiting scholar at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Washington, DC.
Dr. Cole has published peer-reviewed articles in top academic journals that include the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics and Real Estate Economics. His primary areas of research are commercial banking, corporate governance, financial institutions, real estate and small-business finance. Most of his manuscripts are available for free download from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), where he is ranked in the top 0.5% of more than 200,000 researchers worldwide. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited more than 3,700 times by other scholars.
In early 2009, Dr. Cole drafted an action plan for rescuing the economy from the ongoing housing crisis--the Housing Asset Relief Program. This program would target delinquent residential mortgages with three goals: (1) Keep six million families out of foreclosure and in their homes; (2) recapitalize the banking system by removing delinquent mortgages and home equity lines of credit from bank balance sheets; and (3) stablize the credit markets by eliminating the delinquent mortgages that have toxified mortgage-related securities.
130 N Garland CT Ste 1703
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