Dear Friends,
The 14th Dynare Conference (http://www.dynare.org) will be held in
Frankfurt, Germany, at the European Central Bank, on July 5-6, 2018. The
conference is organized by the European Central Bank together with
Banque de France, the Dynare Project at CEPREMAP and DSGE-net.
The DYNARE conference will feature the work of leading scholars in
dynamic macroeconomic modeling and provide an excellent opportunity to
present your own research results.
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé (Columbia University) and Peter Karadi (ECB) will be plenary speakers.
Submissions of papers dealing with different aspects of DSGE modeling
and computational methods are all welcome. Papers using other software
tools than DYNARE or theoretical contributions are also encouraged.
Paper submission procedure: please submit a complete manuscript or a
detailed abstract in PDF format at http://dynare.mjui.fr. If you don't
have already an account on the server, you will need to create one.
Deadline for submission is March 30, 2018. Authors of accepted papers
will be informed by April 20, 2018.
Accepted papers will be considered for publication in the Dynare Working
Papers series (http://www.dynare.org/wp) conditional on the agreement of
the submitter. Note that publication in the Dynare WP doesn't prohibit
submission to another working paper series.
Contact: conference(a)dynare.org<mailto:conference@dynare.org>
Conference Organizers: Ivan Jaccard (ECB), Anton Nakov (ECB), Sebastien
Schmidt (ECB), Michel Juillard (Banque de France).
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Michel Juillard
Dear Dynare users and friends,
We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 4.5.4.
This is a bugfix release.
The Windows packages are already available for download at:
http://www.dynare.org/download/dynare-stable
The Mac and GNU/Linux packages (for Debian and Ubuntu LTS) should follow
soon.
This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.5 (R2007b) to 9.3
(R2017b) and with GNU Octave versions 4.2.
Here is a list of the problems identified in version 4.5.3 and that have
been fixed in version 4.5.4:
- The `type` option of `plot_shock_decomposition` was always set to
`qoq` regardless of what is specified.
- Bug in GSA when no parameter was detected below pvalue threshold.
- Various bug fixes in shock decompositions.
- Bug in reading in macro arrays passed on `dynare` command line via
the `-D` option.
- Estimation with missing values was crashing if the `prefilter` option
was used.
- Added a workaround for a difference in behaviour between Octave and
Matlab regarding the creation of function handles for functions that do
not exist in the path. With Octave 4.2.1, steady state files did not
work if no auxiliary variables were created.
- The `stoch_simul` command was crashing with a cryptic message if
option `order=3` was used without setting `k_order_solver`.
- In cases where the prior bounds are infinite and the mode is
estimated at exactly 0, no `mode_check` graphs were displayed.
- Parallel execution of MCMC was broken in models without auxiliary
variables.
- Reading data with column names from Excel might crash.
- The multivariate Kalman smoother was crashing in case of missing data
in the observations and `Finf` became singular.
- The `plot_shock_decomposition` command ignored various user-defined
options like `fig_name`, `use_shock_groups` or `interactive` and instead
used the default options.
- Nested `@#ifdef` and `@#ifndef` statements don't work in the
macroprocessor.
On behalf of the Dynare Team,
Stéphane.
