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Rerun OSR to check for optimality or local extremum

Your loop is improper because i) you are looping over the Dynare syntax of the command, which is extremely error prone;(you should use the functional command syntax that I outline above) and ii) your should be using the set_param_value command to update parameters (what you did above by assigning a value to the parameter name directly in the loop does not assure correct updating) opt_algo=4 is a Newton-based optimizer and therefore local by construction. opt_algo=9 in contrast is a global opti…