From 26c0825b6f715cfe7812d1956942efa304481157 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Pfeifer <jpfeifer@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:09:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Reset seed before drawing starting points of MCMC chains

Removes stochastics between different runs while not affecting the subsequent MCMC computations for which the seed is also reset and saved
Closes #1048
---
 matlab/metropolis_hastings_initialization.m | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/matlab/metropolis_hastings_initialization.m b/matlab/metropolis_hastings_initialization.m
index 27e8f4c74..f31111d43 100644
--- a/matlab/metropolis_hastings_initialization.m
+++ b/matlab/metropolis_hastings_initialization.m
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ if ~options_.load_mh_file && ~options_.mh_recover
     fprintf(fidlog,' \n');
     % Find initial values for the nblck chains...
     if nblck > 1% Case 1: multiple chains
+        set_dynare_seed('default');
         fprintf(fidlog,['  Initial values of the parameters:\n']);
         disp('Estimation::mcmc: Searching for initial values...')
         ix2 = zeros(nblck,npar);