# Error? I don\`t know how to fix please help **URL:** \ **Category:** Stochastic simulations\ **Created:** [22 November 2023 21:28 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/error-i-don-t-know-how-to-fix-please-help/24582 "2023-11-22T21:28:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mmeneghello](https://forum.dynare.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@mmeneghello](https://forum.dynare.org/u/mmeneghello)\ **Post date:** [22 November 2023 21:28 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/error-i-don-t-know-how-to-fix-please-help/24582/1 "2023-11-22T21:28:55Z")
If anyone knows how to help, me and my friends are writing a code, and I keep getting this error and it doesn’t run, very new to dynare and I don`t know how to fix. If someone could help me out please do. Thank you very much for your time. > > dynare RBC\_carbon.mod > > Starting Dynare (version 5.4). > > Calling Dynare with arguments: none > > Starting preprocessing of the model file … > > ERROR: RBC\_carbon.mod: line 77, cols 1-6: syntax error, unexpected NAME Error using dynare Dynare: preprocessing failed ---
**Author:** ![jpfeifer](https://forum.dynare.org/user_avatar/forum.dynare.org/jpfeifer/32/5044_2.png) [@jpfeifer](https://forum.dynare.org/u/jpfeifer)\ **Post date:** [22 November 2023 21:40 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/error-i-don-t-know-how-to-fix-please-help/24582/2 "2023-11-22T21:40:50Z")
Without the file it is impossible to tell. But it may be a missing semicolon at the end of the previous line. ---
**Author:** ![mmeneghello](https://forum.dynare.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@mmeneghello](https://forum.dynare.org/u/mmeneghello)\ **Post date:** [23 November 2023 13:59 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/error-i-don-t-know-how-to-fix-please-help/24582/3 "2023-11-23T13:59:11Z")
Here`s the full code professor. We are currently struggling with making omega1 between 0.05 and 1, I was hoping to find out how it can be done. Thank you so much for your time! If I need to send the file itself I can do that also. ```auto %% RBC model - All %% By Ghassane Benmir, October 2023 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % First declare all the endogenous variables: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% var c % Consumption l % Labour g % Government Spending t % Taxes/Transfers w % Wages y % Output rF % Risk free rate b % Bonds supply lambda % The lagrangian with respect to consumption and savings (bonds) - also represents the marginal utility of consumption e_a % The shock variable within the law of motion to output em % Emissions miu % Abatement ctax % Carbon tax ; %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Second declare all the exogenous variables: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% varexo eta_a % The exogenous output shock ; %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Third declare all the parameters : %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% parameters beta alpha delta chi phi l0 y0 b0 g0 sdev_a sig_a rho_a sdev_g sig_g rho_g sdev_b sig_b rho_b phi_em omega1 omega2 ; %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Third (bis) calibration for all the params %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% beta = 0.9959; % Time preference alpha = 1/3; % Share of capital income chi = 12; % Level of disutility (we calibrate it such that we have l=1/3 at the Steady state) phi = 1; % Frisch elasticity of labour disutility l0 = 1/3; % Hours worked (1/3 of 24h a day) y0 = 1; % Exogenous Income or GDP b0 = 0; % Fixed supply of bonds (Net-zero supply) g0 = .3; % Gog spending as % of GDP (30% here) sdev_a = .01; % Standard deviation of the exogenous shock to income rho_a = .9; % The shock persistence level sig_a = 1; % The signe of the shock (1 if positive, -1 is negative) phi_em = 0.3; % emission intensity omega1 = 0.1; % abatement cost parameter 1 omega2 = 2.7; % abatement cost parameter 2 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Fourth delcare your model (i.e. the FOCs and Equations of the model) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% model; %%%% Households Side %%%% [name='FOC w.r.t to b: Euler Equation'] lambda = rF(+1)*beta*lambda(+1); [name='FOC w.r.t to c: Marginal Utility of Consumption'] c = 1/lambda; [name='FOC w.r.t to l: Disutility of labour'] w = chi*l^phi/lambda; [name='Consumer Budget Constraint'] b = rF(-1)*b(-1) + w(-1)*l(-1) - t(-1) - c(-1); % y = c + i + g ; % (this is the same equation) %%%% Firms Side %%%% [name='Emission abatement'] em = (1-miu)*phi*y; [name='FOC w.r.t l'] w = (1-alpha)*e_a*l^(-alpha); [name='FOC w.r.t miu'] phi_em = -(omega1*omega2*(miu^(omega2-1))); [name='FOC w.r.t em'] ctax = 1; %%%% Government Spending %%%% [name='Gov Spending'] g = g0*y; [name='Gov Budget Constraint'] g = t ; %%%% Market Clearing conditions (to close the model) [name='Supply of bonds'] b = b0 ; %%%% Exogenous shock law of motion %%%% [name='Law of motion of the output shock'] log(e_a) = rho_a*log(e_a(-1)) +sig_a*eta_a; end; %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Fifth delcare your steady state %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% steady_state_model; e_a = 1 ; %% Analytically without a solver (uncomment all the lines but comment the solver line) % l = l0 ; % b = b0 ; % rF = 1/beta; % rK = 1/beta - (1-delta) ; % k_y = alpha/rK ; % y = (e_a*k_y^(alpha)*l^(1-alpha))^(1/(1-alpha)) ; % w = (1-alpha)*y/l ; % k = alpha*y/rK ; % i = delta*k; % g = g0*y; % t = g ; % c = y - i - g ; % lambda = 1/c ; % q = lambda ; % chi = w*lambda/l^phi ; % % This to make sure l = 1/3 at the steady state %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Sixth conduct all the checks (Residual, Blanchard-Khan ...) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% steady; % Provides you with the steady states values resid(1); % Allow you to check if you computed correctly the steady states equations check; % Checks the Blanchard Khan conditions to see if the model is well set %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Seventh declare the shocks %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% shocks; var eta_a; stderr sdev_a ; end; %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Eight performe the simulation %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% stoch_simul (order=1, pruning, irf=30) c t y l lambda rF em miu ctax w ; ``` ---
**Author:** ![DoubleBass](https://forum.dynare.org/user_avatar/forum.dynare.org/doublebass/32/17420_2.png) [@DoubleBass](https://forum.dynare.org/u/DoubleBass)\ **Post date:** [24 November 2023 08:26 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/error-i-don-t-know-how-to-fix-please-help/24582/5 "2023-11-24T08:26:51Z")
Could it be that you are missing some operators like \* in your equations? For instance in your first equation there are obviously some \*'s missing but also in your Emission abatement equation. Carefully check all of your equations. ---
**Author:** ![jpfeifer](https://forum.dynare.org/user_avatar/forum.dynare.org/jpfeifer/32/5044_2.png) [@jpfeifer](https://forum.dynare.org/u/jpfeifer)\ **Post date:** [24 November 2023 12:30 UTC](https://forum.dynare.org/t/error-i-don-t-know-how-to-fix-please-help/24582/6 "2023-11-24T12:30:52Z")
You are missing the `end` of the `steady_state_model`-block. If you fix that, will get various problems. Foremost is the wrong number of equations. [rbc\_test.mod](https://forum.dynare.org/uploads/short-url/3G1TafGT9oVfMtfVbRqRTfVartp.mod) (5.1 KB)