[Dynare-l] DYNARE NEWS - Info

17 Jan 2010


      Dear Friends,
the Dynare team wishes you a very happy new year! Here are some news:
*  the 6th DYNARE CONFERENCE will be hosted by the Bank of Finland
     in Helsinki, June 3-4, 2010. Plenary speakers will be Fabio Canova
     and Tom Sargent. The call for paper is available at
     http://www.dynare.org/events/6th-dynare-conference. Deadline for
     submission: February 15, 2010.
* the DYNARE SUMMER SCHOOL will take place in Paris, June 28-July2,
     2010. Roger Farmer will be guest lecturer. Details are available
     at http://www.dynare.org/events/dynare-summer-school-2010.
     Deadline for application: March 31, 2010.
* the 16th International Conference on Computing in Economics and
     Finance, will take place at the City University of London, July
     15-18, 2010. As previous year, we will organize DSGE modeling
     sessions. If you want to participate assign your submission to
     Michel Juillard. Details for the Conference are available at
     http://www.city.ac.uk/economics/SCE/ Deadline for submissions:
     January 31, 2010
* We have released Dynare 4.1.0.The most noticeable new features are:
* Third order approximation of stochastic models
   * Faster computation of deterministic simulations and steady state
     on big models (using block decomposition)
   * Support of estimation with missing observations (/i.e./ some
     variables may not have observable data at all periods)
   * Incorporation of the Anderson-Moore Algorithm (AIM)
     http://www.federalreserve.gov/Pubs/oss/oss4/aimindex.html to
     compute the decision rules, as an option
   * Leads and lags are now allowed on exogenous variables
   * New operator to specify steady state value of a variable inside
     the model
   * New operator to take the expectancy of a variable at another date
     than the current one
   * Possibility of creating a LaTeX output file containing the model
     equations
All users are therefore strongly encouraged to upgrade to this new 
version. More details at http://www.dynare.org/news/release-of-dynare-4.1.0
* During 2009, we have migrated the server to http://www.dynare.org.
     Notice that the download section has changed and that "News" and
     "Events" are now in two separate sections of the web site.
Cheers,
Michel