General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
Two-tranche German counter-cyclical stimulus in response to the global financial crisis: Konjunkturpaket I (Pakt für Beschäftigung und Stabilität, Nov 2008, ~€50bn over 2009-2010) focused on infrastructure and corporate- tax measures; Konjunkturpaket II (Jan 2009, ~€50bn) added infrastructure, the Abwrackprämie car-scrappage bonus (€2,500/vehicle, ~2m vehicles, €5bn), a one-off child bonus, SSC reductions, a second income-tax-threshold increase, and a Länder-investment programme. Combined package ~3.2% of 2008 GDP. Contributed to German unemployment peak of only 7.6% in 2009 vs US 10.0% — the 'German jobs miracle' anchored on Kurzarbeit.
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.