Solving and Estimating Indeterminate DSGE Models

October 1, 2013

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Roger Farmer, and Vadim Khramov. Solving and Estimating Indeterminate DSGE Models, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed December 22, 2024

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Summary

We propose a method for solving and estimating linear rational expectations models that exhibit indeterminacy and we provide step-by-step guidelines for implementing this method in the Matlab-based packages Dynare and Gensys. Our method redefines a subset of expectational errors as new fundamentals. This redefinition allows us to treat indeterminate models as determinate and to apply standard solution algorithms. We provide a selection method, based on Bayesian model comparison, to decide which errors to pick as fundamental and we present simulation results to show how our procedure works in practice.

Subject: Estimation techniques, Labor, Neoclassical theory, Rational expectations

Keywords: WP

Publication Details

Pages:

30
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2013/200
Stock No:

WPIEA2013200
ISBN:

9781475589214
ISSN:

1018-5941

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