Dynare Manual

Version 4.1.1

Stéphane Adjemian

Université du Mans and CEPREMAP

Houtan Bastani

CEPREMAP

Michel Juillard

Banque de France and CEPREMAP

Ferhat Mihoubi

Université d'Évry and CEPREMAP

George Perendia

CEPREMAP

Marco Ratto

The European Commission, Joint Research Centre and CEPREMAP

Sébastien Villemot

CEPREMAP

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1. What is Dynare ?
2. Installation and configuration
1. Software requirements
2. Installation of Dynare
2.1. On Windows®
2.2. On Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu
2.3. For other systems
3. Configuration
3.1. For MATLAB®
3.2. For GNU Octave
3.3. Some words of warning
3. Dynare invocation
dynare — executes Dynare
4. The Model file
1. Variable declarations
2. Expressions
2.1. Parameters and variables
2.2. Operators
2.3. Functions
3. Parameter initialization
4. Model declaration
5. Initial and terminal conditions
6. Shocks on exogenous variables
7. Other general declarations
8. Solving and simulating
9. Estimation
10. Forecasting
11. Optimal policy
12. Sensitivity and identification analysis
13. Displaying and saving results
14. Macro-processing language
15. Misc commands
Bibliography

List of Tables

4.1. Content of oo_
4.2. Moments of forecasts
4.3. Moments Names
4.4. Theoretical Moments
4.5. Estimated objects