%steadhnn.m %normal shocks %Program to compute learning with productivity % shocks. Agents estimate steady state with constant gain % Used to generate data for Figures 14.1 and 14.2 % Generated data for figures are in eviews file T=100000; randn('seed',0); t1=clock; mod=max(1,round(T/1000)); S=round(T/mod); nm=zeros(S,1); xem=zeros(S,1); eps=.25; sig=.1; capa=.0805; a=.025; alp=.9; lam=.5; k=40; istar=19.5; bet=1.007; gam=0.04; del=.15; tau=0.15; initn=2.3; n=zeros(T,1); xe=zeros(T+1,1); xe(1)=(initn^(1+eps))/alp; i=1; for j=1:T; n(j)=(alp*xe(j))^(1/(1+eps)); psi=capa*(max(istar,lam*k*n(j)/(1+a*lam*k*n(j))))^bet; %nu=1+tau*(0.5-rand(1)); %nu shock here will have lognormal with mean one and same %variance as uniform [-tau,tau], i.e. (tau^2)/12 u=((log(1+(tau^2)/12))^0.5)*randn(1); nu=exp(u-0.5*log(1+(tau^2)/12)); q=n(j)^alp*psi*nu; x=((1-gam)*q)^(1-sig); xe(j+1)=xe(j)+del*(x-xe(j)); m=j-mod*round(j/mod); if m==0; nm(i)=n(j); xem(i)=xe(j); i=i+1; end; end; t2=clock; emin=etime(t2,t1)/60 i=i-1; %plot(nm(1:i)) plot(n)