The Jacobian or the dynamic model contains Inf?

Stochastic simulations
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I get the following the error message when I run my code:
“The Jacobian or the dynamic model contains Inf. For more information, use options_.debug” Then when I use 'options_.debug" I get ans=0. I am not sure what’s going on. Can anyone help?
I checked my equations for mistakes (many times) and I am pretty confident they are all correct. And the steady state is well defined.

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I get

[quote]STOCHASTIC_SOLVER: The Jacobian of the dynamic model contains Inf. The problem is associated with:

Derivative of Equation 17 with respect to lag of Variable Ai (initial value of Ai: 0)
Derivative of Equation 23 with respect to lag of Variable Ai (initial value of Ai: 0) [/quote]

You are dividing by Ai, which has steady state 0, but it is not in exp in some equations, resulting in a division by 0.

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Thank you! I rewrite my equations and still made those mistake.
One last quick question: I know that changes in variables have to be over a certain threshold for dynare to display their IRF, how and where can I change that? Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

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See the manual on

irf_plot_threshold
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Thank you very much.

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The process for your exogenous variables is wrong:

Derivative of Equation 31 with respect to lag of Variable Al  (initial value of Al: 0) 
Derivative of Equation 34 with respect to lag of Variable upsilon  (initial value of upsilon: 0)

For example, Al is already in logs, so

Al = Al_star^(1-rhoal) *Al(-1)^rhoal   *exp(sigmaal*eal);

will not work, because it assumes it to be in levels.

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Why have all your shocks variance 1?

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  1. Please upgrade to Dynare 5.4. Use this steady state file:
    nk_steadystate.m (3.5 KB)
  2. Your observation equations are wrong. Your are matching mean 0 data to level variables still containing the steady state.
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Thank you Professor, So How should I set the observation equation to match my model? I did not found answer in ”A Guide to Specifying Observation Equations for the Estimation of DSGE Models" I am so sorry.

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Most probably, you simply need to demean your data, but without more information on what you did in your data, it is impossible to tell.

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I previously filtered the data by HP. So now I just need to log the original data and then remove the mean, without any other operations

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  1. The HP-filter should result in demeaned data. But it’s not in your case, which begs the question what went wrong.
  2. Using two-sided HP filtered data for estimation is problematic.
  3. You are supposed to log the data before filtering.
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professor，It is still wrong. I took the logarithm of the raw data and then did one-side HP filtering。

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Without the files it is impossible to tell.

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Search the forum for stochastic singularity. It is very likely that your model implies an exact linear combination between the observables.

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Thank you, professor