Properties of the transition function and oo_.dr.Gy

Dynare help (legacy posts)
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I am working towards interpreting the stability properties of the transition function and wanted to confirm what is the output that is stored as oo_.dr.Gy? Also, is there a way to recover, the transition function from the output of the model obtained using the stoch_simul option? It would be great if you could please help me out with this.

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What do you mean with transition function? Are you looking for the quadratic matrix mapping states today into states tomorrow?

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Hi Johannes,

Yes. The solution that dynare provides on using the stoch_simul option as policy and transition functions is the nxm dimensional matrix (where m is the number of endogenous variables and n is the number of state variables in the model). I wanted to recover the nxn dimensional matrix that gives me the mapping of states today into states tomorrow.

Thank you for your help.

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Please have a look at github.com/JohannesPfeifer/DSGE_mod/tree/master/FV_et_al_2007 and the included ABCD_test.m.
Essentially, you need

%get state indices ipred = M_.nstatic+(1:M_.nspred)'; %get state transition matrices [A,B] = kalman_transition_matrix(oo_.dr,ipred,1:M_.nspred,M_.exo_nbr);

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Hi Johannes,

Thank you for sharing this. I am trying to work through the code you had shared. The code requires me to specify the following:

%get observable position in decision rules
obs_var=oo_.dr.inv_order_var(options_.varobs_id);

Unfortunately, I am not able to recover, varobs_id from the output files that are generated from running dynare. It would be great if you could please help me out with this.

Many thanks for your help.

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You only need the first part. You don’t have observables. The part I pasted into the post is what you need. It will give you the state transition equation. What you are looking at is the observation equation mapping states into observables. For that to work, you need to have a

statement in your model.

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Hi Johannes,

Thank you for pointing this out. It turns out that the eigenvalues of the matrix A from:

[A,B] = kalman_transition_matrix(oo_.dr,ipred,1:M_.nspred,M_.exo_nbr);

is same as the output stored in oo_.dr.Gy.

This was very helpful.

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Indeed. I just saw that in

dyn_first_order_solver.m the last lines are

%predetermined (endogenous state) variables, square transition matrix dr.Gy = hx;