Dear Friends,
the Dynare team wishes you a very happy new year! Here are some news:
* the 6th DYNARE CONFERENCE will be hosted by the Bank of Finland in Helsinki, June 3-4, 2010. Plenary speakers will be Fabio Canova and Tom Sargent. The call for paper is available at http://www.dynare.org/events/6th-dynare-conference. Deadline for submission: February 15, 2010.
* the DYNARE SUMMER SCHOOL will take place in Paris, June 28-July2, 2010. Roger Farmer will be guest lecturer. Details are available at http://www.dynare.org/events/dynare-summer-school-2010. Deadline for application: March 31, 2010.
* the 16th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, will take place at the City University of London, July 15-18, 2010. As previous year, we will organize DSGE modeling sessions. If you want to participate assign your submission to Michel Juillard. Details for the Conference are available at http://www.city.ac.uk/economics/SCE/ Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2010
* We have released Dynare 4.1.0.The most noticeable new features are:
* Third order approximation of stochastic models * Faster computation of deterministic simulations and steady state on big models (using block decomposition) * Support of estimation with missing observations (/i.e./ some variables may not have observable data at all periods) * Incorporation of the Anderson-Moore Algorithm (AIM) http://www.federalreserve.gov/Pubs/oss/oss4/aimindex.html to compute the decision rules, as an option * Leads and lags are now allowed on exogenous variables * New operator to specify steady state value of a variable inside the model * New operator to take the expectancy of a variable at another date than the current one * Possibility of creating a LaTeX output file containing the model equations
All users are therefore strongly encouraged to upgrade to this new version. More details at http://www.dynare.org/news/release-of-dynare-4.1.0
* During 2009, we have migrated the server to http://www.dynare.org. Notice that the download section has changed and that "News" and "Events" are now in two separate sections of the web site.
Cheers,
Michel