Changing Dynare order outside the .mod file

Dynare help (legacy posts)
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Hi,

I need to do a grid search for a range of parameters, for which I use

set_param_value('param', value(i));
stoch_simul(var_list_);

but in each iteration, I need to get the derivatives both for the first and third order expansions. That is, for each parameter, I need to get two sets of derivatives (for 1st and 3rd order). Could you please let me know if/how I can do this.
Note: I have already tried to just change the order using options_.order = 3;, but I wasn’t successful.

Many thanks in advance,
Soroush

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What do you mean? Which error do you get? You need to run Dynare at order 3 first. That is, you use

in the mod-file and call it with

at the beginning of your code. This will create all required files. Then you can switch between first and third order by setting

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Thank you very much jpfeifer, it works now. As you correctly guessed, I was using the wrong order. Just a quick follow up question, and please don’t bother if there is not a good answer for that. When I tried the following piece of code:

dynare afr0test
f_11_3 = [oo_.dr.ghx oo_.dr.ghu];

stoch_simul(var_list_);
f_11_test3 = [oo_.dr.ghx oo_.dr.ghu];

sum(vec(f_11_test3 -f_11_3)) %showing if the first order derivatives have changed

to see if running the same file from outside (i.e. using the stoch_simul) has changed the first-order derivatives, I got 2.14e-6. Admittedly, I have a lot of variables in the models (66 variables), which means each derivative is just changed a tiny bit, but do you know why there is a change in the first place?

Thanks again.

4

Hard to tell without the model. Do you use a steady state file?
In any case, a better test is max(max(abs(f_11_test3 -f_11_3)))

5

When calculating the stochastic steady state as proposed by Johannes in another part of this forum (thanks Johannes!) I came across something which might be a bug? (or I’m overlooking something). I’m also using my .mod file for other stuff, therefore, I specifiy the approximation order in a parameter file. This worked fine up to order 2, however, no I’m encountrering the following error message:

The derivatives were not computed for the required order. Make sure that you used the right order option inside the stoch_simul command

I used the following code in my dynare file:

param_order=3;

options_.order=param_order;
options_.nograph=1;
options_.noprint=1;

if param_order == 1
options_.irf=40;
end;

if param_order == 2
options_.irf=0;
options_.nodisplay=1;
end;

if param_order == 3
options_.irf=0;
options_.k_order_solver=1;
options_.pruning=1;
end;

stoch_simul;

Obviously I can get around this problem by writing

if param_order == 3
stoch_simul(order=3);
else
stoch_simul;
end

instead of just stoch_simul, but still, it seems inconsitent, therefore, I wanted to point it out.

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The reason is that the third order derivatives are only computed by the preprocessor if order=3 is detected inside of the mod-file.