Thanks Richard. This explains things well. -viral
> On 03-Dec-2014, at 3:27 am, Richard Dennis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Others on this forum can probably speak with more authority than me about > Dynare as I have never used it My understanding is that in its initial > stages there were versions of Dynare in c++, Gauss, and Matlab. The c++ and > Gauss versions have long since become obsolete and disappeared. The extent > to which c++ is exploited by the Matlab Dynare is not clear to me, but I > don't think it is used a lot --- Dynare users do not oooh and aaaah over its > speed. > > Where Dynare aims to be an entire modeling ecosystem for estimating, solving, > and simulating models with a parser that allows its users to specify their > model much as they would write it on paper, SolveDSGE is a much more modest > creation, focusing for now on the solution part. Solving DSGE models is the > bread and butter of much applied macro so a package like SolveDSGE seemed > necessary to get macro-economists to adopt Julia. Once the Dynare team > decide that the Julia market is big enough I have no doubt that they will > release something that wipes the floor with my little creation (which > ironically aims to grow the market), but until then.... > > Cheers, > > Richard > > On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 18:27:41 UTC, Viral Shah wrote: > Last commit was in June... > > -viral > > On 2 Dec 2014 23:47, "Pileas" <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone tried to run these examples? > > It seems that something is obsolete ... > > Τη Τρίτη, 2 Δεκεμβρίου 2014 12:20:28 μ.μ. UTC-5, ο χρήστης David Anthoff > έγραψε: > https://github.com/DynareTeam/Dynare.jl > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Viral Shah > Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 8:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [julia-users] Re: [ANN - SolveDSGE] A Julia package to solve DSGE > models > > > Tangential, but I have heard (no experience) that Dynare is the tool of > choice for DSGE modeling, and it appears that much of Dynare is in C++. Do > you know anything about how easy it would be to get Dynare working with > Julia? As I understand they only use Matlab for plotting and convenience, but > not for real computation. > > > -viral > > On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 1:34:01 AM UTC+5:30, Richard Dennis wrote: > > Hi All, > > > I have posted a package called SolveDSGE on github: > https://github.com/RJDennis/SolveDSGE > > > The package contains a variety of methods for solving Dynamic Stochastic > General Equilibrium (DSGE) models to to first- or second-order accuracy. The > package will be of most interest to macro-economists, but others may find the > routines for reordering the complex Schur form and the generalized complex > Schur form useful. > > > I am still very new to Julia so I'm sure that much of the code could be > improved. Nevertheless, I hope that some people will find the package useful > for their research. > > > Cheers, > > > Richard > > >
