From 29d1e80eda076e556d6454ce880acb4b445dbc9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Pfeifer <jpfeifer@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 22:15:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Decrease verbosity of solve_algo=0

Shuts off display unless debugging is requested. Otherwise, estimation will clutter the screen
---
 matlab/dynare_solve.m | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/matlab/dynare_solve.m b/matlab/dynare_solve.m
index 59cb325a6..d70c2c2fd 100644
--- a/matlab/dynare_solve.m
+++ b/matlab/dynare_solve.m
@@ -93,7 +93,11 @@ if options.solve_algo == 0
     options4fsolve.MaxFunEvals = 50000;
     options4fsolve.MaxIter = maxit;
     options4fsolve.TolFun = tolf;
-    options4fsolve.Display = 'iter';
+    if options.debug==1
+        options4fsolve.Display = 'final';
+    else
+        options4fsolve.Display = 'off';
+    end
     if jacobian_flag
         options4fsolve.Jacobian = 'on';
     else

From 6b82788180258c672529abbbe605747e573cccf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Pfeifer <jpfeifer@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 22:16:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Display reason for mode_check-problems when debugging is
 enabled

---
 matlab/mode_check.m | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/matlab/mode_check.m b/matlab/mode_check.m
index b7221961c..8d216bcbf 100644
--- a/matlab/mode_check.m
+++ b/matlab/mode_check.m
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ for plt = 1:nbplt,
                 y(i,1) = fval;
             else
                 y(i,1) = NaN;
+                if DynareOptions.debug
+                    fprintf('mode_check:: could not solve model for parameter %s at value %4.3f, error code: %u\n',name,z(i),info(1))
+                end
             end
             if DynareOptions.mode_check.nolik==0
                 lnprior = priordens(xx,BayesInfo.pshape,BayesInfo.p6,BayesInfo.p7,BayesInfo.p3,BayesInfo.p4);