Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
Direction of monetary-base expansion decisions relative to trend. Separate from fiscal.transfer_expansion even when correlated.
In August 1979 President Carter nominated Paul Volcker as Federal Reserve Chair, who almost immediately launched a regime change in monetary policy targeting non-borrowed reserves and tolerating sharp interest-rate volatility to break double-digit inflation. The October 6, 1979 shift in operating procedures pushed the federal funds rate above 19 percent in 1981 and triggered a deep recession that culminated in disinflation by mid-1980s.
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.