The book
The Supervisory Compass
How Examiners Watched Banks, Markets, and the Spaces Between, 1863–2024. A book by Stephen A. Karolyi, Andrew Bird, and Thomas Ruchti. In progress.
Table of contents
Fourteen chapters across four parts. One-paragraph synopsis each.
view →Chapter 1 (free)
Edward Green, the Malden robbery, and the first supervisory attention cycle.
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Per-chapter explorer presets, behind-the-finding technical notes, annotated case studies. Unlocked with a book purchase code.
about → What is this book about? Every history of US bank
supervision so far has been narrative. This one is the first measurement
record — one hundred and sixty years of OCC, Federal Reserve, and
FDIC writing on bank risk, scored against ten domains and fifty
sub-domains, year by year and agency by agency. The narrative chapters are
built around the data, not the other way around.