Sensitivity of convergence

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That can happen due to numerical reasons. See point 2 at

Occbin: "increase maxit or check_ahead_periods" with very high maxit and check_ahead_periods

Part of the problem is a bug that will crash Occbin whenever something goes wrong. See Provide error handling to piece-wise linear Kalman filter (#1854) · Issues · Dynare / dynare · GitLab The other issue is your specification. You had occbin_constraints; name 'ELB'; bind iT - 1e-06*vr_s1*Ups < 0.001247663; relax iT - 1e-06*vr_s1*Ups > 0.001247663; end; So the ZLB exactly binding will fall between the two regimes, creating oscillations. Using % load OccBin occbin_constraints; name…