Forum

If you run into problems with Dynare that you can’t seem to resolve by looking at the manual, the Dynare Forum is a good place to turn. If you’re a beginner, odds are someone else has run into the same problem as you, so make sure you search the forum for similar questions. Otherwise, feel free to make an account and ask a question yourself. If you’re a more experienced user, heading to the forum from time to time will allow you to learn the intricacies of Dynare and you might just be able to help out someone else out!

Mailing List

If you would like to be informed of recent Dynare news by email (new releases, Summer School, and Conference dates), feel free to sign up to receive notifications. This is a low traffic list; you’ll receive at least 2 and on average 4 emails per year, depending on how many releases we create.

Summer School

We organize a weeklong summer school every year in June where we teach students how to use Dynare. The fee for students is minimal (equal to expenses on lunches and one dinner) so as to encourage participation. If this interests you, please keep a look out for the opening of the application period in April.

Quick Start

For those who want to quickly have something running, the Quick Start page explains how to setup Dynare on Windows or macOS and to run your first model file.

Manual

The Dynare Manual is the best place to go to understand the Dynare syntax, commands, and options. The .pdf and .html versions of the manual are distributed with each Dynare release and also available here:

HTML Manual

PDF Manual

Dynare Team Presentations

Dynare Youtube Channel with Summer School Presentations

Deterministic Models: Perfect foresight, nonlinearities and occasionally binding constraints, by Sébastien Villemot

Introduction to DSGE modeling (in French), by Sébastien Villemot

Introduction to the internals of the Dynare Preprocessor, by Houtan Bastani and Sébastien Villemot

Macro Processor Tutorial, by Houtan Bastani and Sébastien Villemot

Tutorial on using the Preprocessor’s JSON output, by Houtan Bastani

Guide to Specifying Observation Equations for the Estimation of DSGE Models, by Johannes Pfeifer

Introduction to Graphs in Dynare, by Johannes Pfeifer

Videos, tutorials and teaching materials for Dynare, by Willi Mutscher

Solving rational expectations models at first order: what Dynare does, by Sébastien Villemot

Solving Stochastic Dynamic Equilibrium Models: A K-order Perturbation Approach, a paper by Michel Juillard and Ondra Kamenik that describes the algorithm for k-order perturbation

a description of the algorithm used for solving the specialized Sylvester equation, by Ondra Kamenik

Dynare implementations of published models

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi’s collection

Replication of

Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist, 1999. “The Financial Accelerator in a Quantitative Business Cycle Framework,” NBER Working Papers 6455
Carlstrom and Fuerst, 1997. “Agency Costs, Net Worth, and Business Fluctuations: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis,” American Economic Review, vol. 87(5), pages 893-910, December
Schmitt-Grohe, Stephanie & Uribe, Martin, 2003. “Closing small open economy models,” Journal of International Economics, vol. 61(1), pages 163-185, October

Macroeconomic Model Data Base

The database now covers more than 100 models, ranging from small-, medium- and large-scale DSGE models to earlier-generation New-Keynesian models with rational expectations and more traditional Keynesian-style models with adaptive expectations. It includes models of the United States, the Euro Area, Canada, and several small open emerging economies. Some of the models explicitly incorporate financial frictions.

Johannes Pfeifer’s collection of Dynare models

A collection of Dynare models that demonstrates Dynare best practices, providing mod files to replicate important models.