By the way, refactor the MCE case by merging two routines related to the Z₁ aux. var.
This restores the symmetry with the backward case, now that the latter also has
an aux. var. for the pac_expectation operator. Also store the aux. var. IDs in a
structure common to the backward and MCE cases.
Incidentally, the auxiliary endogenous variable representing Z₁ and created for
PAC MCE models no longer necessarily appear as the first auxiliary variable (so
this is effectively a revert of 64f55e4a5e).
As the name implies, this option allows contemporaneous variables on the RHS.
The A0 matrix for contemporaneous variables is added as a second (optional)
output to the generated var_ar.m file. Note that for reduced-form VAR, this
matrix will be the identity.
Also, the user is now allowed to write the VAR models in a more flexible form:
the LHS must still be a single variable, but the RHS can be an arbitrary
expression (as long as it is linear, obviously). Internally, the preprocessor
now uses derivation to compute the coefficients of the AR and A0. This change
applies to both reduced-form and structural VAR models.
Ref. dynare#1785
For the time being, the preprocessor will refuse that this option be used with
any command other than estimation.
By the way, remove occbin_likelihood and occbin_smoother options to estimation.
Ref. dynare#569
– Fix order of items in this structure. Previously, items were ordered
according to the declaration order of parameters. Now, items are order
according to lag order (first lag appears first)
– Gracefully handle the case where there is no autoregressive part
(Closes: #52)
Temporary terms need to be computed per equation (as was done previously), and
not simply per block.
It’s necessary to track temporary terms per equation, because some equations
are evaluated instead of solved, and an equation E1 may depend on the value of
an endogenous Y computed by a previously evaluated equation E2; in this case,
if some temporary term TT of equation E2 contains Y, then TT needs to be
computed after E1, but before E2.
In particular, in dynamic models, temporary terms are now computed for
derivatives w.r.t. exogenous, and also w.r.t. endogenous variables that do not
belong to the block.
— use a std::map for storing block derivatives
— remove redundant ModelTree::first_chain_rule_derivatives structure
— remove unused codepaths in StaticModel
— DynamicModel: simplify code that determines the type of derivatives in a
block. We now use a slightly different categorization.
— by the way, fix the max lead/lag information for blocks that are obtained via
merging. A workaround was previously implemented in
DynamicModel::get_Derivative(), but it is no longer needed with this fix.
This was only adding unneeded complexity, for no clear reason (we’re very far
from reaching 2³¹ equations, and if we wanted to support models that large, it
would be better to use long integers to avoid being limited to 2³²).
— return output arguments on the left-hand side
— do not pass class members as input/output arguments
By the way, fix a (benign) vector allocation bug in
{Static,Dynamic}Model::computeChainRuleJacobian().
Since commit 9c9e8f816f, it’s the information
from the original model which was in this field, which is not what is expected.
By the way, do not output this field (and the related M_.hessian_eq_zero) when
the Hessian is not computed by the preprocessor (i.e. in practice for perfect
foresight), since they would otherwise contain incorrect information.
Ref. dynare#1681