We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 4.2.5.
This is a bugfix release.
The Windows and Mac packages for the new release are already available
for download at the official Dynare website <http://www.dynare.org>.
Linux packages should follow soon.
All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
The new release is compatible with MATLAB versions ranging from 7.0 (R14) to
7.14 (R2012a) and with GNU Octave versions ranging from 3.0 to 3.6.
Note that GNU Octave users under Windows will have to upgrade to GNU Octave
version 3.6.1 (MinGW). The Octave installer can be downloaded at:
http://www.dynare.org/octave/Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_20120303-setup.exe
Here is a non-exhaustive list of the problems identified in version 4.2.4 and
that have been fixed in version 4.2.5:
* The MATLAB optimization toolbox was sometimes not correctly detected even
when installed
* Using the inverse gamma distribution with extreme hyperparameter values
could lead to a crash
* Various issues in the accelerated deterministic solver with block
decomposition
* Various issues in the parallelization engine
* Compatibility issues with the Global Sensitivity Analysis toolbox
* The Dynare++ binary was broken in the Windows package because of a missing
dynamic library
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Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
Phone: +33-1-40-77-84-04 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
The Dynare Summer School 2012 will take place from June 18 to June 22,
2012 in Paris, France.
GOALS OF SUMMER SCHOOL
The school will provide an introduction to Dynare and to Dynamic
Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) modeling. Dynare is a free sofware
for simulating and estimating DSGE models.
The courses will focus on simulation, estimation of DSGE models as well
as computation of optimal policy, identification and sensitivity
analysis. It will be also the occasion to introduce the new features in
Dynare 4.3 (to be released before the Summer School).
This Summer school is aimed at beginners as well as at more experienced
researchers. PhD students are encouraged to participate.
APPLICATION
Interested people should fill the form at:
http://www.dynare.org/django2/SummerSchool/
Application should be done *before April 1st, 2012*. You will have to
upload a CV and a recent research paper.
We will confirm acceptance by April 15, 2012.
People working in organizations member of DSGE-net (Bank of Finland,
Banque de France, Capital Group, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve
Bank of Atlanta, Norges Bank, Sverige Riksbank, Swiss National Bank)
should register via their network representative.
REGISTRATION FEE
- Registration fee for academics (including lunches and one diner, but
no accomodation): 150 €
- Registration fee for financial institutions not member of DSGE-net
(including lunches and one diner, but no accomodation): 1600 €
WORKSHOP VENUE
Banque de France
31 rue Croix des Petits Champs
75001 Paris
France
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
This is a “portable only” workshop. Each participant is required to
come with his/her portable computer with MATLAB version 7.0 or above
installed. We will provide WiFi access, but participants shouldn't rely
on it to access a MATLAB license server at their own institution. As an
alternative to MATLAB, it is possible to use the free software GNU
Octave, version 3.0 or higher (see
http://www.dynare.org/DynareWiki/DynareOctave)
WORKSHOP DRESSING CODE
Casual.
WORKSHOP ANIMATORS
- Stéphane Adjemian (CEPREMAP and Université du Maine)
- Michel Juillard (Banque de France)
- Ferhat Mihoubi (CEPREMAP and Université d’Évry)
- Sébastien Villemot (CEPREMAP and Paris School of Economics)
- Marco Ratto (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
This workshop is organized with the support of Banque de France,
CEPREMAP and DSGE-net.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
See:
http://www.dynare.org/summerschool/2012/program.pdf
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Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
Phone: +33-1-40-77-84-04 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
