Suggestion for more information

Dynare v4 (legacy)
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Hi,

I see that in dynare_estimation you have the following piece of code

 if any(xparam1 < bounds(:,1)) | any(xparam1 > bounds(:,2))
	find(xparam1 < bounds(:,1))
	find(xparam1 > bounds(:,2))
	error('Initial parameter values are outside parameter bounds')
    end

I would suggest to give more information to the user than just printing out numbers. Why don’t you replace it with

 if any(xparam1 < bounds(:,1)) | any(xparam1 > bounds(:,2))
                  xlb=find(xparam1 < bounds(:,1));
	  xub=find(xparam1 > bounds(:,2));
  
        disp('parameters violating the lower bound')
        fprintf('number \t value \t lower bound\n')
        fprintf('%5.0f\t %5.5f \t %5.5f\n', xlb,xparam1(xlb),bounds(xlb,1))
        disp('parameters violating the upper bound')
        fprintf('number \t value \t upper bound\n')
        fprintf('%5.0f\t %5.5f \t %5.5f\n', xub,xparam1(xub),bounds(xub,2))

        error('Initial parameter values are outside parameter bounds')
 end

Best

Gianni