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Overview

Rebel A. Cole is affiliated with Florida Atlantic University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on economics, econometrics, and finance, with significant work in business, management, and accounting. The subfields in which they have contributed include finance, accounting, economics and econometrics, strategy and management, and information systems.

The main topics covered by Rebel A. Cole include:

  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

Rebel A. Cole has published extensively, with frequent appearances in the SSRN Electronic Journal and other venues such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, The Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Business Ethics, and Academy of Management Proceedings.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Corporate failures: Declines, collapses, and scandals, 2021, Journal of Corporate Finance
  • HOW DID THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AFFECT SMALL-BUSINESS LENDING IN THE UNITED STATES?, 2020, The Journal of Financial Research
  • How Do Firms Choose Legal Form of Organization?, 2022, Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Innovation Responds to Climate Change Proposals, 2024, Journal of Business Ethics
  • The effect of collateral on small business rationing of term loans and lines of credit, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaboration is a component of Rebel A. Cole's work, with frequent co-authors including Jason Damm, Brian Silverstein, J. W. Taylor, Greg Tindall, and David Javakhadze.

The scholar has contributed 24 publications categorized under economics, econometrics, and finance, and 15 under business, management, and accounting. Their research outputs span corporate finance and governance concerns, banking regulations and efficiencies, housing market dynamics, and legal-economic interfaces relevant to financial crises and compliance frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Agency Costs and Ownership Structure

    James S. Ang;Rebel A. Cole;James Wuh Lin

  • The importance of relationships to the availability of credit

    Rebel A. Cole

  • Cookie Cutter vs. Character: The Micro Structure of Small Business Lending by Large and Small Banks

    Rebel A. Cole;Lawrence G. Goldberg;Lawrence J. White

  • Expropriation through loan guarantees to related parties: Evidence from China

    Henk Berkman;Rebel A. Cole;Lawrence J. Fu

  • Separating the likelihood and timing of bank failure

    Rebel A. Cole;Jeffery W. Gunther

  • Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Causes of U.S. Commercial Bank Failures This Time Around

    Rebel A. Cole;Lawrence J. White

  • Predicting Bank Failures: A Comparison of On- and Off-Site Monitoring Systems

    Rebel A. Cole;Jeffery W. Gunther

  • Political Connections and Minority-Shareholder Protection: Evidence from Securities-Market Regulation in China

    Henk Berkman;Rebel A. Cole;Lawrence J. Fu

  • Financial Services Used by Small Businesses: Evidence from the 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances

    Marianne P. Bitler;Alicia M. Robb;John D. Wolken

  • Cookie-cutter versus character: the micro structure of small business lending by large and small banks

    Rebel A. Cole;Lawrence G. Goldberg;Lawrence J. White

  • A CAMEL rating's shelf life

    Rebel Cole;Jeffery W. Gunther

  • The effect of changes in ownership structure on performance: Evidence from the thrift industry

    Rebel A. Cole;Hamid Mehran

  • Debt financing, survival, and growth of start-up firms

    Rebel A. Cole;Tatyana Sokolyk

  • Does Deposit Insurance Improve Financial Intermediation? Evidence from the Russian Experiment

    Lucy Chernykh;Rebel A. Cole

  • Who needs credit and who gets credit? Evidence from the surveys of small business finances

    Rebel Cole;Tatyana Sokolyk

  • Bank stock returns and economic growth

    Rebel A. Cole;Fariborz Moshirian;Qiongbing Wu

  • FIMS: A New Monitoring System for Banking Institutions

    Rebel A. Cole;Barbara G. Cornyn;Jeffery W. Gunther

  • Bank and Nonbank Competition for Small Business Credit: Evidence from the 1987 and 1993 National Surveys of Small Business Finances

    Rebel A. Cole;John D. Wolken;R. Louise Woodburn

  • A Different Look at Commercial Real Estate Returns

    Mike Miles;Rebel Cole;David Guilkey

  • What Do We Know about the Capital Structure of Privately Held US Firms? Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finance

    Rebel A. Cole

  • Expropriation Through Loan Guarantees to Related Parties: Evidence from China

    Rebel A. Cole;Henk Berkman;Jiang Lawrence Fu

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence J. White
Lawrence J. White New York University
James S. Ang
James S. Ang Florida State University
Douglas J. Cumming
Douglas J. Cumming Stevens Institute of Technology
David K. Guilkey
David K. Guilkey University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sofia Johan
Sofia Johan Florida Atlantic University

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