Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Chile's banking liberalisation, codified in the General Banking Law amendments of 1975-1977 under the Chicago Boys-led Pinochet economic team, lifted interest-rate ceilings, ended directed credit, allowed re-privatisation of banks nationalised under Allende, and removed quantitative credit controls. Capital-account liberalisation and reduced reserve requirements followed. The intended effect was to reallocate credit through market prices; the resulting boom contributed to the 1982 banking crisis that triggered re-regulation under the 1986 Ley General de Bancos.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.