Dear Dynare friends,
We are pleased to announce the release of Dynare 5.4. This maintenance
release fixes various bugs.
The Windows, macOS and source packages are already available for
download atthe Dynare website. All users are strongly encouraged to
upgrade.
This release is compatible with MATLAB versions ranging from 8.3
(R2014a) to 9.14 (R2023a), and with GNU Octave version 8.1.0 (under
Windows).
Note for macOS users with an Apple Silicon processor, and who are also
MATLAB users: the official MATLAB version for use on those processors
is still the Intel version (running through Rosetta 2), so the official
Dynare package for download on our website is built for Intel only.
However, since Mathworks has released a beta version of MATLAB for
Apple Silicon, we created a beta package of Dynare that you can try
with it. See this forum thread for more
details:https://forum.dynare.org/t/testers-wanted-release-of-dynare-5-x-bet…
Here is a list of the problems identified in version 5.3 and that have
been fixed in version 5.4:
* Files installed through the Windows installer had too weak
permissions and
could be modified by unpriviledged local users, if the default
installation
location (c:\dynare\) had been chosen
* Estimation:
the load_results_after_load_mh option would not find the location of
the
results filethe computation of prior/posterior statistics would
crash if the value of
the filter step_ahead option was greater than 1 without requesting a
forecast or the smootherNaN or complex parameters returned by steady
state files were not correctly
handledanalytical_derivation could be triggered with
endogenous_prior but
would not take the endogenous prior into account for the Jacobian
and
Hessian
* OccBin:
running the calib_smoother command with smoother_inversion_filter
would
crash unless likelihood_inversion_filter was also specifiedrunning
the piecewise Kalman smoother would crash if an error was
encountered during computation of the decision rules
* PAC equation estimation through iterative OLS would crash if the
auxiliary
model contained a constant
* The variable label was incorrect for leads and lags of exogenous
variables in
the display of decision rules and in the model_info command
* Declaring a trend_var variable while not having a var(deflator=...)
statement would cause the preprocessor to crash
* Macro processor: error messages following a @#define, @#include or
@#includepath directive could in some cases point to a line number
off by 1
* Perfect foresight simulations: the debug option would not preserve
sparsity, causing out of memory errors
As a reminder, the list of new features introduced in versions 5.x can
be found in the release notes for 5.0.
On behalf of the Dynare Team,
--
Sébastien Villemot
Economist at CEPREMAP
Dynare developer
https://sebastien.villemot.name
Sorry to write again, there was an error in the previous message: the
second Dynare workshop for advanced users will take place from Wednesday
to Friday 6-8 September 2023 (not in November).
Dear friends,
We will organise a workshop for advanced Dynare users (second
edition). The event will be hosted by the Joint Research Center (Ispra,
Italy) from Wednesday to Friday September 6-8 2023.
More information on our website:
https://www.dynare.org/events/dynare-workshop-for-advanced-users-2023-open
Deadline for submissions is 30 April 2023.
Best regards,
Stéphane
Dear friends,
Next Dynare conference will be hosted by the Bank of Malta, Valetta,
from 19th to 20th October 2023. Keynote speakers will be John Hassler
(Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University) and
Frank Smets (European Central Bank, Ghent University). More information
on our website:
https://www.dynare.org/events/dynare-conference-2023/
Deadline for submissions is 10 May 2023.
Best,
Stéphane.
Dear friends,
We will organise a workshop for advanced Dynare users (second
edition). The event will be hosted by the Joint Research Center (Ispra,
Italy) from Wednesday to Friday November 6-8 2023.
More information on our website:
https://www.dynare.org/events/dynare-workshop-for-advanced-users-2023-open
Deadline for submissions is 30 April 2023.
Best regards,
Stéphane
