Dear all,
I have a download file from professor frank schorfheide’s website (mod and data files are attached below). When I tested it, it reports the error messages as follows. I have no idea why. When I run the non-demeaned model, it works perfect. Could any of you help me spot the problem?
Second, I want to know if I want put ‘endogenous_prior’ option in estimation block. Do I need to specify prior density in ‘estimated_params’ block as usual? It does not seems right to me.
Many thanks!
Best,
Richard
POSTERIOR KERNEL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM!
(minus) the hessian matrix at the “mode” is not positive definite!
=> posterior variance of the estimated parameters are not positive.
You should try to change the initial values of the parameters using
the estimated_params_init block, or use another optimization routine.
Warning: The results below are most likely wrong!
In dynare_estimation_1 at 694
In dynare_estimation at 89
In us_m1_demeaned at 190
In dynare at 180
Error using chol
Matrix must be positive definite.
Error in metropolis_hastings_initialization (line 68)
d = chol(vv);
Error in random_walk_metropolis_hastings (line 62)
ix2, ilogpo2, ModelName, MetropolisFolder, fblck, fline, npar, nblck, nruns,
NewFile, MAX_nruns, d ] = …
Error in dynare_estimation_1 (line 782)
feval(options_.posterior_sampling_method,objective_function,options_.proposal_distribution,xparam1,invhess,bounds,dataset_,options_,M_,estim_params_,bayestopt_,oo_);
Error in dynare_estimation (line 89)
dynare_estimation_1(var_list,dname);
Error in us_m1_demeaned (line 190)
dynare_estimation(var_list_);
Error in dynare (line 180)
evalin(‘base’,fname) ;
us_euro_data_demeaned.m (446 Bytes)
us_m1_demeaned.mod (2.69 KB)