%gridmse2.m %Program to compute learning with productivity % shocks. Agents estimate steady state with constant gain % We search for optimal del % NORMAL SHOCKS t1=clock; T=100000; randn('state',0); 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=0.20; initn=2.2; n=zeros(T,1); x=zeros(T,1); xe=zeros(T+1,1); xe(1)=(initn^(1+eps))/alp; 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 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(j)=((1-gam)*q)^(1-sig); xe(j+1)=xe(j)+del*(x(j)-xe(j)); end; d=0.05:0.05:0.95; p=length(d); mse=zeros(p,1); xed=zeros(T+1,1); xed(1)=xe(1); for i=1:p; for j=1:T-1; mse(i)=mse(i)+(x(j+1)-xed(j))^2; xed(j+1)=xed(j)+d(i)*(x(j)-xed(j)); end; mse(i)=mse(i)/(T-1); end; t2=clock; emin=etime(t2,t1)/60; emin del tau T msecurve=[d' mse]; save tab151 msecurve del tau T; msecurve stdnnshock=(log(1+(tau^2)/12))^0.5