Working Papers:

Rebel A. Cole, Ken Farris and Arie Melnik. 2009. The cost of advice in mergers and acquisitions. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole and Linda Wu. 2009. Improving bank failure prediction using a simple dynamic hazard model. Paper presented at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Research Seminar in Washington, DC, USA, May 19, 2009. (Link to pdf file at FDIC)

Henk Berkman, Rebel A. Cole and Lawrence J. Fu. 2009. Improving corporate governance where the State is the controlling block holder. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Australasian Finance and Banking Conference held in Sydney, Australia, December 15-18, 2004. Presented at the Journal of Corporate Finance's Conference on Corporate Finance and Governance in Emerging Markets to be held in Beijing, PRC, August 24-26, 2009. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole and Susanne Cannon. 2009. Changes in REIT Liquidity 1998-2007: Evidence from Daily Data. Paper presented at the DePaul Conference on REITs held in Chicago, IL, USA, October 24-25, 2008.Also presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Real Estate Society held in Monterey, CA, USA, April 2-4, 2009. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Lucy Chernykh and Rebel A. Cole. 2009. Does deposit insurance improve financial intermediation? Evidence from the Russian experiment. Paper to be presented at the 2009 Annual Meetings of the Financial Management Association to be held in Reno, NV USA, Oct 21-24, 2009. Also presented at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Research Seminar in Washington, DC, USA, May 18, 2009. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole and Hamid Mehran. 2009. Gender and Small Firms. Paper presented at the Kauffman Foundation–Federal Reserve Conference on Entrepreneurial Finance held in Cleveland, OH, USA, March 12-13, 2009. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole and Rima Turk-Ariss. 2008. Legal origin, creditor protection and bank lending: Evidence from emerging markets. Paper presented the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Financial Management Association held in Grapevine, TX, USA, Oct. 9-11, 2008. Also presented at the Conference on Financial Stability, co-sponsored by the Bank of Finland and the Journal of Financial Stability, June 7-8, 2007.(Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole and Hamid Mehran. 2008. What can we learn from privately held firms about executive compensation? Paper presented at the CES IFO Workshop on Executive Pay held in Venice, Italy July 16-17, 2008. Also presented at the Conference on Corporate Governance at Family/Unlisted Firms, Thun, Switzerland, June 15-17, 2006. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole. 2008. Who needs credit and who gets credit? Paper to be presented at the 2009 Annual Meetings of the Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance to be held in Chicago, IL, USA, September 2009. Also presented at the World Bank Conference "Small Business Finance: What Works, What Doesn't?" held in Washington, DC, USA, May 5-6, 2008. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole. 2008. What do we know about the capital structure of privately held firms? Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances. Paper presented at the 2008 Annual Meetings of the Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, September 25-26, 2008. Also presented at the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies in Melbourne, VIC Australia. December 7, 2007. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole and Joseph Vu. 2006. Do mergers create or destroy value: Evidence from unsuccessful mergers. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Financial Management Association, Salt Lakc City, UT, USA, October 12-14, 2006. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Susanne Cannon, Rebel A. Cole and Jonathan Dombrow. 2006. Is there a market for partial corporate control? Evidence from REITs. Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Real Estate Research Institute, Chicago, IL, USA, April 27-28, 2006. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Henk Berkman, Rebel A. Cole and Lawrence J. Fu. 2005. Agency Costs, Expropriation and Firm value: Evidence from Securities-Market Regulation in China. Paper presented at the International Conference on Corporate Governance in Asia and China, Shanghai, PRC March 11-13, 2005. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Henk Berkman, Rebel A. Cole and Lawrence J. Fu. 2002. From State to State: Improving corporate governance where the government is the controlling block holder. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Conference on Asian Corporate Governance, Seoul, Korea, May, 2002. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole and Nick Walraven. 1998. Banking consolidation and the availability of credit to small businesses: Evidence from the 1993 National Survey of Small Businesses. Presented at the Conference on Consolidation in the Financial Services Industry, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. New York City, NY USA. March 27, 1998. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole. 1998. Availability of credit to small and minority-owned businesses: Evidence from the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole. 1998. A note on REIT liquidity: The role of “New REITs.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association held in Chicago, IL USA. January 1998. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole and George W. Fenn. 1995. The Role of Commercial Real Estate Investments in the Banking Crisis of 1985-92. Paper presented at the 1995 Annual Meetings of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association held in Washington, DC, January 1995. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole, Joseph A. McKenzie and Lawrence J. White. 1995. Deregulation gone awry: Moral hazard in the savings and loan industry. Paper presented at the 1990 Annual Meetings of the Financial Management Association.. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)

Rebel A. Cole, and Hamid Mehran. 1991. Executive compensation and corporate performance: Evidence from thrift institutions. Presented at the 27th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition held in Chicago, IL, USA, May 1991. (Link to pdf file at SSRN)