Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Targeted industrial and sectoral subsidies (renewable energy, chip manufacturing, agriculture, green hydrogen, etc).
De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
Bank of Japan "window guidance" (madoguchi shidō) was an informal but binding system of bank-by-bank loan ceilings used through the high-growth era. The BOJ allocated quarterly credit quotas to city banks, steering lending toward MITI-priority sectors (steel, shipbuilding, electronics) under the rationing regime that complemented Fiscal Investment and Loan Program (FILP) allocations. The mechanism amplified industrial policy by directing scarce credit while suppressing consumer-facing finance.
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.