plot_icforecast

 Build plots for the conditional forecasts.

 INPUTS 
  o Variables     [char]        m*x array holding the names of the endogenous variables to be plotted. 

 OUTPUTS
  None.
 
 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
  This routine has to be called after imcforecast.m.

0001 function plot_icforecast(Variables,periods,options_)
0002 % Build plots for the conditional forecasts.
0003 %
0004 % INPUTS
0005 %  o Variables     [char]        m*x array holding the names of the endogenous variables to be plotted.
0006 %
0007 % OUTPUTS
0008 %  None.
0009 %
0010 % SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
0011 %  This routine has to be called after imcforecast.m.
0012 
0013 % Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Dynare Team
0014 %
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0029 
0030 if exist('OCTAVE_VERSION') && octave_ver_less_than('3.4.0')
0031     % The set() command on the handle returned by area() crashes in Octave 3.2
0032     error('plot_conditional_forecast: you need Octave >= 3.4 (because of a bug in older versions)')
0033 end
0034 
0035 load conditional_forecasts;
0036 
0037 if nargin==1 || isempty(periods) % Set default number of periods.
0038     eval(['periods = length(forecasts.cond.mean.' Variables(1,:) ');']);
0039 end
0040 
0041 for i=1:size(Variables,1)
0042     eval(['ci1 = forecasts.cond.ci.' Variables(i,:) ';'])
0043     eval(['m1 = forecasts.cond.mean.' Variables(i,:) ';'])
0044     eval(['ci2 = forecasts.uncond.ci.' Variables(i,:) ';'])
0045     eval(['m2 = forecasts.uncond.mean.' Variables(i,:) ';'])
0046     build_figure(Variables(i,:),ci1(:,1:periods),ci2(:,1:periods),m1(1:periods),m2(1:periods),options_);
0047 end
0048 
0049 function build_figure(name,cci1,cci2,mm1,mm2,options_)
0050 hh = dyn_figure(options_,'Name',['Conditional forecast: ' name '.']);
0051 H = length(mm1);
0052 h1 = area(1:H,cci1(2,1:H));
0053 set(h1,'BaseValue',min([min(cci1(1,:)),min(cci2(1,:))]))
0054 set(h1,'FaceColor',[.9 .9 .9])
0055 hold on
0056 h2 = area(1:H,cci1(1,1:H));
0057 set(h2,'BaseValue',min([min(cci1(1,:)),min(cci2(1,:))]))
0058 set(h2,'FaceColor',[1 1 1])
0059 plot(1:H,mm1,'-k','linewidth',3)
0060 plot(1:H,mm2,'--k','linewidth',3)
0061 plot(1:H,cci2(1,:),'--k','linewidth',1)
0062 plot(1:H,cci2(2,:),'--k','linewidth',1)
0063 axis tight
0064 hold off