Krähenbühl Global Consulting

Krähenbühl Global Consulting ("KGC") provides solutions to clients in need of assistance with complex financial analysis. KGC specializes in providing technical assistance to Central Banks in developing countries on matters related to financial stability, stress-testing, and the supervision of financial institutions, but also provides financial solutions and expert testimony on a variety of topics related to commercial banking, corporate finance, corporate governance, financial institutions, real estate and small-business finance.

Dr. Rebel A. Cole is the CEO of KGC. Dr. Cole has been a professor of finance and real estate in the Kellstadt Graduate School of Businessat DePaul University since 2003, where he teaches MBA-level courses in financial management, corporate governance and valuation in the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. Prior to coming to DePaul, Dr. Cole taught in the Australian School of Businessat the University of New South Wales--Australia's flagship university. During his career, he has taught finance in five different countries.

Dr. Cole is a frequent commentator in the financial media, appearing on television more than 20 times during the past year.

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Dr. Cole received his PhD in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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 S&L crisis, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where he worked on the 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 SEER bank early warning system, which is the Fed's primary system for offsite monitoring of banks and bank holding companies.

Since leaving the Board of Governors in 1997, Dr.Cole has served as a special advisor to the Carribbean Technical Assistance Center, theInternational Monetary Fund, the Middle East Technical Assistance Center, and the World Bank, providing technical assistance to Central Banks in developing countries that include the Bahamas, China, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Palestine, the Philippines, Russia and Yemen. Dr. Cole has participated in more than 20 international missions to these countries, primarily to assist in the development of off-site monitoring systems for commercial banks and the development of country-level, industry-level and firm-level financial stability indicators and stress tests.

Dr. Cole has published refereed articles in the top academic finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Banking and Finance. 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).

Dr. Cole's Curriculum Vitae

Link to Dr. Cole's Published Research Papers

Link to Dr. Cole's Working Papers

KGC has completed projects in:

Auckland, New Zealand

Beijing, People's Republic of China

Beirut, Lebanon

Casablanca, Morocco

Chicago, IL USA

Jerusalem, Israel

Kingston, Jamaica

Kuala Lumper, Malaysia

Manila, Phillipines

Melbourne, Australia

Moscow, Russia

Nairobi, Kenya

Nassau, Bahamas

New York City, NY USA

Ramallah, Palestine

Sana'a, Yemen

Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Sydney, Australia

Washington, DC USA