How to determine priors?

[jpfeifer]

Please see the discussion at

DSGE Estimation - Imposing prior mean and std

Please see [Choosing an appropriate standard deviation for prior) and if this does not answer your question, report back. Formal prior elicitation is done in Del Negro Schorfheide (2008) - Forming priors for DGSE models. Regarding the error message: you are using a beta distribution that implies the parameter is between 0 and 1. Given that no realizations can be bigger than 1 or smaller than 0, this limits the standard deviation that is possible. If you impose a mean of 0.86, the parameter can …