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Faculty Profile

Ethan Cohen-Cole
Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison

Van Munching Hall 4420
Phone: 301-405-5295
E-mail: ecohencole@rhsmith.umd.edu 
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Ethan Cohen-Cole

Ethan Cohen-Cole received his MA and PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He earned an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a BA from Harvard University. He is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland and was previously employed as a financial economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He has also been a visitor at the University of California–Berkeley.

His research interests include consumer finance and financial institutions. His work on consumer finance includes work on the supply of credit, the determinants of the consumer bankruptcy decision, and decision making in delinquency. Cohen-Cole's work on financial institutions has focused on the linkages between bank regulation and monetary policy as well as the nature and path of the financial crisis of 2007-2009.