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 State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 corporatised major government trading departments — Electricity Corporation (ECNZ), Coal Corporation, Forestry Corporation, Telecom, Post Office Bank, NZ Post — into Crown-owned companies operating on commercial principles, with appointed boards and Companies Act-style accountability. The Act preceded subsequent privatisations (Telecom 1990, Post Bank 1989). The intended effect was to subject SOEs to capital-market discipline, ring-fence cross-subsidies, and prepare the ground for asset sales under Rogernomics.
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.