Dear all,
The 7th annual DYNARE Conference (www.dynare.org) will be held in
Atlanta on September 9-10, 2011.
The conference is organized by the Center for Quantitative Economic
Research (CQER) at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta together with
DSGE-net and the Dynare project at CEPREMAP.
The DYNARE conference will feature the work of the leading scholars in
dynamic macroeconomic modeling and provide an excellent opportunity to
present your own research results.
Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago) and Giorgio Primiceri
(Northwestern University) will be plenary speakers.
Submission of the papers focusing on the following issues is encouraged:
- Model uncertainty and optimal policy;
- Imperfect information and learning;
- Model and parameter identification;
- Occasionally binding financial constraints.
The list is not all-inclusive. Submissions of papers dealing with
different aspects of DSGE modelling and computational methods are all
welcome. Submissions of papers using other software tools than DYNARE or
theoretical contributions are also encouraged.
Complete manuscripts or detailed abstracts should be sent in PDF format
to Hanane Bahala at the following address: hanane.bahala(a)ens.fr
Deadline for submissions is May 15, 2010. Authors of accepted papers
will be informed by June 1, 2011.
Organizers:
- Michel Juillard (Bank of France);
- Daniel Waggoner (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta);
- Tao Zha (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Emory University).
We apologize for multiple posting.
--
Sébastien Villemot
CEPREMAP - Paris School of Economics
Homepage: http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
Landline phone: +33 1 40 77 49 90
SIP phone: sebastien.villemot(a)ekiga.net
PGP Key: 0xA6C029B9D06B2913D71C105EBE37E801FB6EFF8B (http://pgp.mit.edu/)
Dear all,
The Dynare team is pleased to announce the creation of the Dynare
Working Papers series [1]. The Dynare Working Papers series is intended
for the following kind of contributions:
* methodological papers related to current or forthcoming Dynare
functionality;
* papers in quantitative macroeconomics whose results (or portion
thereof) have been obtained with the help of Dynare.
Authors are encouraged to submit papers falling into one of the two
aforementioned categories, even if they have already been published in
another working papers series. Note that contributions not directly
related to Dynare, but still pertaining to the fields of numerical
methods or of quantitative macroeconomics, are also welcome.
Submissions should be sent by e-mail to: wp(a)dynare.org. We commit
ourselves to giving a fast and fair editorial decision, but please
forgive us if you do not receive a full-fledged referee report in
return.
The goal of this series being state of the art dissemination, the source
code of computer programs used in the paper should also be included in
the submission (this covers Dynare MOD files and/or any other program,
whether written in MATLAB, Octave, Fortran, C, C++, etc). If the
submission is accepted, the source code will be made publicly available
on our website.
Papers and codes published in the series are automatically added to the
RePEc [2] database.
We are waiting for your contributions!
Stéphane and Sébastien.
[1] http://www.dynare.org/wp
[2] http://ideas.repec.org/s/cpm/dynare.html
#171: implement the possibility of passing macro-processor defines on the
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...like gcc does with the -D option.
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Ticket URL: <https://www.dynare.org/trac/ticket/171>
Dynare <http://www.dynare.org>
The Dynare project
Hi all,
I have converted the Dynare reference manual to the Texinfo format,
which is easier to edit than Docbook. We hope this will make easier
contributions to the reference manual.
You need to run "autoreconf" in your git repository in order to be able
to compile things again.
Documentation on this new format is on a wiki page:
http://www.dynare.org/DynareWiki/ReferenceManual
Note that in translating to Texinfo, I also made the following
improvements:
* there are now 2 indices at the end of the file: one for functions and
commands, the other for variables (in particular fields of "oo_")
* I updated the introduction, using the frontpage of the website
* I split the old "Solving and simulating" section into four
subsections: steady state, model checks, deterministic simulations,
stochastic simulations
* the HTML output looks better for math formulas (see the wiki page for
details)
Best,
--
Sébastien Villemot
CEPREMAP - Paris School of Economics
Homepage: http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
Landline phone: +33 1 40 77 49 90
SIP phone: sebastien.villemot(a)ekiga.net
PGP Key: 0xA6C029B9D06B2913D71C105EBE37E801FB6EFF8B (http://pgp.mit.edu/)
May be of interest to you.
Best
Michel
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Identification of Bayesian DSGE models
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:01:33 +0000
From: Ron Smith <r.smith(a)econ.bbk.ac.uk>
To: <michel.juillard(a)ens.fr>
Dear Prof Juillard
You may be interested in the attached paper with Hashem Pesaran and Gary
Koop. It considers how prior and posterior differ for unidentified
parameters and suggests a fairly easy way to check local identification
by simulating the model on different sized samples.
Best wishes
Ron Smith
Prof Ron P Smith,
Economics,
Birkbeck College,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HX
Tel 44 (0)20 7631 6413
Fax 6416
Home page: http://www.ems.bbk.ac.uk/faculty/smith/index_html
Dear Michel and Sebastien,
a couple of weeks ago I committed a change to the optimizer n.5 which
we decided not to cherry pick to 4.2 since it was not a debug and but an
improvement. In fact, I think we could port it to 4.2 because I realized
that in some cases it fixes a bug.
The problem arises when we have relatively short data series (say 60
quarters), but a quite large number of observed series (say 20-25).
Assume we have 70 parameters to estimate, the outer product gradient
used by mode_compute=5 in version 4.2 is rank deficient as if there was
insufficient data to estimate 70 params while the data (e.g. 60x20) are
more than enough. The modifications I did would fix this for 4.2. What
do you think?
please let me know how to proceed
thanks for your help
best
Marco
--
Marco Ratto,
(http://easu.jrc.ec.europa.eu/),
Joint Research Centre
The European Commission,
TP 361, 21027 ISPRA(VA), ITALY
Tel: +39 0332 78 5639
Fax: +39 0332 78 5733
marco.ratto(a)jrc.ec.europa.eu
I have merged Global Sensitivity Analysis toolbox (GSA) into the main
Dynare repository, keeping the history of the project.
The files are now organized as follows:
- matlab/gsa: main GSA files
- doc/gsa: documentation
- tests/gsa: example MOD files
Concerning the documentation, I incorporated it into the build system:
it should be recompiled with "make pdf" provided you have a TeX
installation.
Concerning the MATLAB files:
- they are now automatically included in MATLAB path;
- we will solve the indentation problems at the next global
reindentation, just before the release of Dynare 4.3;
- I began tackling copyright problems, by removing functions which had a
bad copyright and were redundant with free functions provididing the
same functionality (beta/gamma/gaussian CDF/quantile functions);
Marco: please check commit cde4f038d74166ba016d3e10f961dc36c69afd1f
for any mistake;
- there are still copyright problems which need to be solved; I opened a
ticket on that (https://www.dynare.org/trac/ticket/173). Marco: please
have a look at the problematic functions and see if we can find a
solution (replacing them by a free one, or getting the permission from
the original author to distribute its file under GPL or public
domain).
Best,
--
Sébastien Villemot
CEPREMAP - Paris School of Economics
Homepage: http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
Landline phone: +33 1 40 77 49 90
SIP phone: sebastien.villemot(a)ekiga.net
PGP Key: 0xA6C029B9D06B2913D71C105EBE37E801FB6EFF8B (http://pgp.mit.edu/)