[DynareDev] random seeds in metropolis

Dear All, I am doing some work with metropolis and I noted that the seeds for parallel chains are initialized at the same status, so that the chains only differ by the first point, but the random sequences are the same: this implies that sequences for each parameter from different chains are correlated (just compare the values from different blocks stored in files _mhxx_blck1.mat _mhxx_blck2.mat). I am wandering if this is on purpose or this behavior is not desirable. best Marco -- Marco Ratto, Joint Research Centre The European Commission, TP 361, 21027 ISPRA(VA), ITALY Tel: +39 0332 78 9217 Fax: +39 0332 78 5733 marco.ratto@jrc.ec.europa.eu