Hi Michel, thanks for helping the original poster. But my issue was rather that it is strange to complain about initial values in later runs of steady. I was wondering why the misleading error message is triggered by something else and still consider this a bug. At least in the long term we should not use an error triggered by invalid starting values to crash the steady state computation, if steady simply is not able to find a steady state (even if the reason is that the model is wrong). Best, Johannes -- Johannes Pfeifer Haußerstr. 29 72076 Tübingen Tel.: +49-(0)7071-6396184 Mobil.: +49-(0)170-6936820 Germany Von: dev-bounces@dynare.org [mailto:dev-bounces@dynare.org] Im Auftrag von Michel Juillard Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2012 18:01 An: List for Dynare developers Betreff: Re: [DynareDev] steady state computation in solve1 Hi Johannes, I responded directly on the forum. He defines mua and mux as zero mean processes and then use them as arguments in non-linear equations without taking the exponential. This is stupid but very hard to spot or to come-up with a more meaningful error message. Best Michel On 10/29/2012 09:13 AM, Johannes Pfeifer wrote: Dear Michel, could you have a look at <http://www.dynare.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4151&sid=98769af7c5cb0e2f9 e46ccb899e0210f> http://www.dynare.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4151&sid=98769af7c5cb0e2f9e 46ccb899e0210f The original values for steady state computation are valid. However, later on during steady state computation in solve1 the error message STEADY: numerical initial values incompatible with the following equations 10 is triggered. I think this is a bug. Best, Johannes -- Johannes Pfeifer Haußerstr. 29 72076 Tübingen Tel.: +49-(0)7071-6396184 Mobil.: +49-(0)170-6936820 Germany _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@dynare.org https://www.dynare.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev