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 unilateral tariff reduction programme between 1984 and 1996, announced by Finance Minister Roger Douglas and continued under successor governments, dismantled the import licensing/tariff regime that had peaked above 25% effective protection in some sectors. Through successive Customs Tariff amendments, average tariffs fell to single digits by 1996, with most remaining tariffs phased out under CER and APEC commitments. The intended effect was to expose domestic industry to global price discipline, raise consumer welfare, and end the post-war import-substitution regime in favour of an open-economy growth model.
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.