Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
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.
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
New Zealand floated the New Zealand dollar on 4 March 1985 by Reserve Bank decision under the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1964 (as amended), with Finance Minister Roger Douglas and Governor Spencer Russell ending the prior crawling peg. Combined with abolition of exchange controls in 1984, the intended effect was to restore monetary autonomy, expose the economy to traded-goods discipline, and enable the subsequent inflation-targeting framework that became formal under the 1989 RBNZ Act.
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.