Rebel Cole

Rebel A. Cole [http://condor.depaul.edu/~rcole] has been a Professor of Finance at the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois since July 2002. He teaches MBA-level courses in financial management and corporate governance. He came to DePaul from Sydney, Australia, where he taught at the University of New South Wales--Australia’s flagship university. During his career, he has taught finance in five different countries.

Dr. Cole received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988, after which he spent ten years working in the Federal Reserve System, primarily at the Board of Governors in Washington, DC.

Since 1998, Dr. Cole has served as a special advisor to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank through his consulting company Krähenbühl Global Consulting [http://www.krahenbuhlglobal.com] , providing technical assistance to Central Banks in developing countries that include China, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Palestine, the Philippines, Russia and Yemen.

Dr. Cole has published refereed articles in the top finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He is probably best known for his works on availability of credit to small businesses and predicting bank failures. According to the Web of Science, his research has garnered more than 400 citations from other scholarly works.

His primary areas of research are commercial real estate, corporate governance, financial institutions and small business finance.

Dr. Cole was born in Asheville, NC on August 25, 1958 to Kathleen Krähenbühl Cole and Frank A. Cole. He attended Asheville High School and received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. He has two sisters--Gail Godwin and Franchelle Millender. He is married to Caroline Lee.