JBendge

Bayesian Estimation of
Nonlinear Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE) Models

The aim of the project is to develop a toolkit and a graphical user interface for the specification, solution, estimation and simulation of nonlinear DGE models.

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Current Status

JBendge is constantly under development and collaborators are highly welcomed.

• project version 2.0 beta, July 19, 2008, (requires Java 6) download

• solves for linear and nonlinear optimal policies from nonlinear dynamic first order conditions with rational expectations

• estimates linearized or nonlinear models

• estimation and solution is parallelized to run on multicore CPUs

• Smolyak sparse grid methods are used to avoid the curse of dimensionality for function approximation, numerical integration of expectations and filters

• various nonlinear filters implemented

• interactive parallel Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for Bayesian posterior estimation

• platform independent