Chapter 3. Dynare invocation

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dynare — executes Dynare

In order to give instructions to Dynare, the user has to write a model file whose filename extension must be .mod. This file contains the description of the model and the computing tasks required by the user. Its contents is described in Chapter 4, The Model file.

Once the model file is written, Dynare is invoked using the dynare command at the MATLAB® or Octave prompt (with the filename of the .mod given as argument).

In practice, the handling of the model file is done in two steps: in the first one, the model and the processing instructions written by the user in a model file are interpreted and the proper MATLAB® or GNU Octave instructions are generated; in the second step, the program actually runs the computations. Boths steps are triggered automatically by the dynare command.