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's Reserve Bank Act 1989 made price stability the sole statutory objective of the Reserve Bank, with the Governor accountable via a Policy Targets Agreement (initial target 0-2% CPI) and a single-decision-maker regime. The world's first formal inflation-targeting framework, it codified operational independence with clear democratic accountability. The intended effect was to break inflationary expectations after the 1980s' double-digit inflation and to discipline future fiscal-monetary coordination.
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.