Negative shock in stochastic simulation

Dynare help (legacy posts)
1

Does anybody know how to impose a negative shock, say a decrease in government spending, in a stochastic simulation? Thanks!

I tried: var g = -0.1. But there seems to be some problem with the cholesky decomposition.

??? Error using ==> chol
Matrix must be positive definite.

Error in ==> th_autocovariances at 142
cs = chol(SS)’;

Error in ==> disp_th_moments at 37
[oo_.gamma_y,stationary_vars] = th_autocovariances(dr,ivar,M_,options_);

Error in ==> stoch_simul at 134
disp_th_moments(oo_.dr,var_list);

Error in ==> model4a at 323
info = stoch_simul(var_list_);

Error in ==> dynare at 120
evalin(‘base’,fname) ;

2

Leave everything as in the positive shock case, but instead of adding a positive shock, subtract a positive one. In the model block, if you had something like:

G=rho*G+eps_g;
it should read

G=rho*G-eps_g;