From de8962b2390988920982956e6e7860b3d22d7bd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michel Juillard <michel.juillard@mjui.fr>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 20:47:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "added calls to re-initialize persistent variable
 'penalty' in dsge_likelihood() and dsge_likelihood_hh() before calling the
 optimizer" This reverts commit 108444b70301378c4e451b5751630bb86dc3148f.

The initialization works indeed differently and I will document it in next commit.
---
 matlab/dynare_estimation_1.m | 2 --
 matlab/newrat.m              | 2 --
 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/matlab/dynare_estimation_1.m b/matlab/dynare_estimation_1.m
index 24508429f..5d5eb01bc 100644
--- a/matlab/dynare_estimation_1.m
+++ b/matlab/dynare_estimation_1.m
@@ -140,8 +140,6 @@ end
 
 %% Estimation of the posterior mode or likelihood mode
 if ~isequal(options_.mode_compute,0) && ~options_.mh_posterior_mode_estimation
-    % initializing persistent variable 'penalty' in dsge_likelihood()
-    dsge_likelihood();
     switch options_.mode_compute
       case 1
         optim_options = optimset('display','iter','LargeScale','off', ...
diff --git a/matlab/newrat.m b/matlab/newrat.m
index 883ac7c49..619dd90a0 100644
--- a/matlab/newrat.m
+++ b/matlab/newrat.m
@@ -55,8 +55,6 @@ htol0=htol_base;
 gibbstol=length(BayesInfo.pshape)/50; %25;
 
 func_hh = str2func([func2str(func0),'_hh']);
-% initialize persistent variable 'penalty' in func_hh()
-func_hh();
 fval0=feval(func0,x,DynareDataset,DynareOptions,Model,EstimatedParameters,BayesInfo,DynareResults);
 fval=fval0;