Prof. Dr. Jörg Prokop
Professor of Finance and Banking

• Room: A05 2-223, Haarentor campus
• Contact hours: on appointment via Stud.IP
• Phone: +49 (0)441 798-4159

Anna Schlünzen 

Administrative Assistant

• Room: A05 2-247, Haarentor campus
• Phone: +49 (0)441 798-4164
• Fax: +49 (0)441 798-5843

Matthias Walting, M.A.

Research Assistant & PhD Student

• Room: A05 2-238a, Haarentor campus
• Contact hours: Monday, 2-3 p.m.
• Phone: +49 (0)441 798-2732
• Research interests: Credit Rating, Financial Analysts

Current projects

• Equity Crowdfunding
• Financial Analysts' Conflicts of Interest
• Capital Market Governance and Monitoring by Credit Rating Agencies
• Determinants of Operational Risk in Financial Institutions

Publications

• Hu / Prokop / Trautwein: Transnational Spillover Effects of European Sovereign Rating Signals on Bank Stock Returns, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 84, 2022, pp. 171-182 (doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2022.01.008)
• Prokop / Wang: Is there a Gender Gap in Equity-based Crowdfunding?, Small Business Economics, 2021 (doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00574-6) 
• Kammann / Prokop: A View to a Deal: The Effect of Upcoming Investment Banking Transactions on Financial Analysts' Target Price Estimates, The European Journal of Finance, 2021 (doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2021.1990977)
• Prokop / Wallis: Hedge Accounting nach IFRS 9: Eine Analyse des Regelwerks aus Sicht von Industrieunternehmen, KoR - Internationale und kapitalmarktorientierte Rechnungslegung, April 2021, S. 149-158
• Hu / Prokop / Shi / Trautwein: The Rating Spillover from Banks to Sovereigns: An Empirical Investigation across the European Union, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Vol. 64, 2020, 101161 (doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2019.101161)
• Kammann / Prokop / Walting: Informational Effects of MiFID: The Case of Equity Analysts, The European Journal of Finance, Vol. 26 (7-8), 2020, pp. 711-727 (doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2019.1697322)
• Prokop / Kammann: The Effect of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive on Affiliated Analysts' Earnings Forecast Optimism, Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 95, Jan/Feb 2018, pp. 75-86 (doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconbus.2017.06.004)
• Prokop / Pakhchanyan: Determinants of Internal Fraud and Improper Business or Market Practices in Financial Institutions, in Boubaker / Nguyen (eds.), Ethics, ESG, and Sustainable Development, World Scientific Press, 2019, pp. 79-99 (https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811206887_0003)
• Pakhchanyan / Prokop / Sahakyan: Drivers of Bank Solvency, Risk Provisioning, and Profitability in the Armenian Banking System, Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Vol. 17, Issue 3 (2018), pp. 307-332
• Kaspereit / Lopatta / Pakhchanyan / Prokop: Systemic Operational Risk: Spillover Effects of Large Operational Losses in the European Banking Industry, Journal of Risk Finance, Vol. 18, Issue 3 (2017), pp. 252-267 (doi.org/10.1108/JRF-11-2016-0141)
• Hu: The Impact of Sovereign Rating Events on Bank Stock Returns: An Empirical Analysis for the Eurozone, Journal of Risk Finance, Vol. 18 Issue. 4, 2017, pp. 338-367 (doi.org/10.1108/JRF-12-2016-0156)
• Pakhchanyan: Operational Risk Management in Financial Institutions: A Literature Review, International Journal of Financial Studies, 2016, 4(4), 20 (doi.org/10.3390/ijfs4040020)
• Hu / Prokop: The informational content of issuer credit rating changes in emerging stock markets: evidence from China, in Boubaker / Buchanan / Nguyen [eds.], Risk Management in Emerging Markets: Issues, Framework and Modeling, Emerald 2016, pp. 335-364 (www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/978-1-78635-452-520161023)
• Hu / Kaspereit / Prokop: The Information Content of Issuer Rating Changes: Evidence for the G7 Stock Markets, International Review of Financial Analysis, Vol. 47 (October 2016), pp. 99-108 (doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2016.06.012)
• Varmaz / Fieberg / Prokop: The value relevance of "too-big-to-fail" guarantees: evidence from the 2008-2009 banking crisis, Journal of Risk Finance, Vol. 16, Issue 5 (2015), pp. 498-518 (doi.org/10.1108/JRF-06-2015-0056)
• Hollander / Prokop: Stock Price Effects of Asset Securitization: The Case of Liquidity Facility Providers, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 57 (2015), pp. 147-160 (doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2014.11.002)
• Forbes / O'Donohoe / Prokop: Financial regulation, collective cognition, and nation state crisis management: a multiple case study of bank failures in Germany, Ireland, and the UK, Journal of Risk Finance, Vol. 16, Issue 3 (2015), pp. 284-302 (doi.org/10.1108/JRF-10-2014-0157)
• Fieberg / Körner / Prokop / Varmaz: Big is beautiful: the information content of bank rating changes, Journal of Risk Finance, Vol. 16, Issue 3 (2015), pp. 233-252 (doi.org/10.1108/JRF-10-2014-0156)
• Prokop: Unobservable Service Quality and Moral Hazard: The Case of Impartial Business Valuations, Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, Vol. 5(2) (2013), pp. 178-194 (doi.org/10.1108/QRFM-08-2011-0022)
• Prokop / Pfeifer: How do you deal with operational risk? A survey of risk management practices in the German insurance sector, Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2013), pp. 444-454
• Prokop: Further Evidence on the Role of Ratio Choice in Hedge Fund Performance Evaluation, Journal of Finance and Investment Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2012), pp. 181-195
• Borde / Prokop: The Market for Squeeze-out Valuation and Auditing Services: Evidence from Germany, in Koveos [ed.], The Dynamic World of Accounting: Research, Practice and Education in a Changing Environment, Athens 2011, pp. 167-184
• Prokop: On the Persistence of a Calendar Anomaly: The Day-of-the-Week Effect in German and US Stock Market Returns, International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, Issue 54 (2010), pp. 176-190
• Prokop / Borde: Kommunales Finanzmanagement:
  Möglichkeiten und Grenzen moderner Finanzinstrumente, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2010

Winter term

• wir390 Financial Management (B.A.)
• wir837 Advanced Corporate Finance (M.A.)
• wir837 Financial Statement Analysis and Equity Valuation (M.A.)
• Thesis Colloquium (B.A., M.A.)

Summer term

• wir082 Corporate Finance (B.A.)
• wir842 Banking (M.A.)
• wir843 Financial Risk Management (M.A.)
• Thesis Colloquium (B.A., M.A.)

Either Winter or Summer term

• wir844 Current Topics in AFT
• wir845 Advanced Issues in AFT Research