Dr. Ethan Cohen-Cole
Special Consultant
ethan.cohen.cole@nera.com
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Education
PhD, MA, Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
MPA, Public Policy, Princeton University
BA, History, Harvard University
Experience
Dr. Cohen-Cole is an Assistant Professor in the Finance Department of the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business, and a Special Consultant in NERA's Securities and Finance Practice. His expertise is in financial institutions and financial risk management, with particular focus on credit and operational risk, complex financial products, securities lending, regulation, and consumer financial products.
Prior to teaching at the University of Maryland, Dr. Cohen-Cole spent several years as a financial economist and large bank supervisor with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he led quantitative reviews of large bank risk modeling, served as a system quantitative expert on risk management and Basel II, and conducted supervisory reviews and/or provided consultative expertise in areas including interest rate risk/asset-liability management, securities lending, operational risk, economic capital, credit risk, and transfer pricing.
Previously, he worked as a consultant specializing in banking, operational, credit, and interest rate/asset liability risk management for Oliver Wyman & Company, Treacy and Company, and Ross Crossland Weston and Company. He also served as a consultant on sovereign debt management to the World Bank.
Dr. Cohen-Cole has presented and published widely on the topics of consumer credit, banking and financial markets, and health economics. His work has appeared in publications including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Law and Economic Review, the Journal of Health Economics, the British Medical Journal, Economic Inquiry, and Economic Letters. He is a referee for multiple economic journals.
At the University of Maryland, Dr. Cohen-Cole teaches classes on risk management and financial institutions. He is a faculty member of the Center for Financial Policy and a faculty representative on the financial institutions and consumer finance track of the center. He has held visiting academic positions at the European Central Bank, the Center for Financial Research at the FDIC and the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a BA in history from Harvard University, an MPA in public policy from Princeton University, and an MA and PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
