Problems running dynare 4.4.3 in octave 4.0.0

Dynare help (legacy posts)
1

Hi dear Dynare friends I am trying to run Dynare in octave 4.0.0, but the answer is as follows,

warning: Octave language extension used: bare newline inside parentheses near line 37 offile C:\octave-4.0.0\shar
e\octave\4.0.0\m\help\which.m
warning: called from
dynare_config at line 38 column 12
dynare at line 48 column 12
warning: Octave language extension used: ! used as operator near line 48 offile C:\octave-4.0.0\share\octave\4.0.
0\m\help\which.m
warning: Octave language extension used: bare newline inside parentheses near line 50 offile C:\octave-4.0.0\shar
e\octave\4.0.0\m\help\which

however, the steady state values are computed:

ave\4.0.0\m\strings\deblank.m
warning: Octave language extension used: ! used as operator near line 63 offile C:\octave-4.0.0\share\octave\4.0.
0\m\strings\deblank.m
warning: Some of the parameters have no value (omega, hy) when using steady. If these parameters are not initiali
zed in a steadystate file, Dynare may not be able to solve the model…
*
STEADY-STATE RESULTS:

c 0.832532
y 1.00036
k 2.73097
h 0.745591
bt 0.324025
r 0.0965247
b 0.14052
a 1
pmk 0.14652
pmh 0.805018
pmu 0.87383
ik 0.136549
ih 0.032806
d -0.324025
ca -1.3297e-017
q 8.34042
ky 2.73
hyt 0.745325
by 0.32391
cay 0
u 0.686878
warning: Octave language extension used: ! used as operator near line 88 offile C:\octave-4.0.0\share\octave\4.0.
0\m\set\intersect.m
warning: Octave language extension used: ! used as operator near line 49 offile C:\octave-4.0.0\share\octave\4.0.
0\m\set\unique.m
warning: Octave language extension used: ! used as operator near line 55 offile C:\octave-4.0.0\share\octave\4.0.
0\m\set\unique.m
warning: Octave language extension used: != nargin-1) used as operator near line 64 offile C:\octave-4.0.0\share
octave\4.0.0\m\set\unique.m
warning: Octave language extension used: ! used as operator near line 86 offile C:\octave-4.0.0\share\octave\4.0.
0\m\set\unique.m
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a final error message at the end reads as follows:

*error: dyn_first_order_solver: could not find library or dependents: c:\dynare\4.4.3\matlab../mex/octave\mjdgges
.mex
error: called from
dyn_first_order_solver at line 216 column 39
stochastic_solvers at line 217 column 18
resol at line 137 column 14
check at line 73 column 23
uzawalucas2 at line 275 column 15
dynare at line 180 column 1

Thanks for your help and guidance.

Wilman

2

Dynare does not yet support Octave 4. You can check the status at github.com/DynareTeam/dynare/issues/1113

3

ok, I understand the point, bur there is any usable Octave version Dynare can work with?

Thanks

W.

4

3.8.2 should work.

5

Great!! Dynare 4.4.3 in Octave 3.8.2 worked very good at calibrating and simulating a model.

Now I am trying to perform Bayes stimation and a new error reads:

  • ***MESSAGE FROM ROUTINE D9LGIT IN LIBRARY SLATEC.
    ***FATAL ERROR, PROG ABORTED, TRACEBACK REQUESTED
  • NO CONVERGENCE IN 200 TERMS OF CONTINUED FRACTION
  • ERROR NUMBER = 3

***END OF MESSAGE

***JOB ABORT DUE TO FATAL ERROR.
0 ERROR MESSAGE SUMMARY
LIBRARY SUBROUTINE MESSAGE START NERR LEVEL COUNT
SLATEC D9LGIT NO CONVERGENCE IN 20 3 2 8

error: Due to a bug in Octave, you must choose other values for mean and/or variance of your prior on thetinf, or
use another shape
error: called from:
error: c:\dynare\4.4.3\matlab\draw_prior_density.m at line 58, column 13
error: c:\dynare\4.4.3\matlab\plot_priors.m at line 55, column 38
error: c:\dynare\4.4.3\matlab\dynare_estimation_init.m at line 257, column 13
error: c:\dynare\4.4.3\matlab\dynare_estimation_1.m at line 81, column 63
error: c:\dynare\4.4.3\matlab\dynare_estimation.m at line 89, column 5
error: C:\Users\FCEClaudia Sepulveda\Google Drive\ejercicios estimacion\bayesian\mod consumo thesis\consasym.m
at line 260, column 1
error: c:\dynare\4.4.3\matlab\dynare.m at line 180, column 1*

Thanks again!!

6

This is an Octave problem. Octave cannot compute the prior for the parameter thetinf with the given parameters. You need to adjust them