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Can dynare solve a Ramsey problem with different discount ra

PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 7:50 pm
by nkhesicheng
Hello everyone! I am working on a model with two type of agents who have different discount rates. When I want to set the ramsey_policy, I find it is difficult to set the government discount rate because the social welfare function is the sum of two type of agents while they have different discount rate. Can dynare deal with this kind of problem? Thank you.

Re: Can dynare solve a Ramsey problem with different discoun

PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2016 3:10 pm
by jpfeifer
With the Ramsey command, you can only pass one planner objective with one planner discount factor. If you cannot nest your problem into this, then you cannot solve it using Dynare's
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ramsey_policy

command. But you may be able to derive the planner FOC's yourself and then solve the model.

Re: Can dynare solve a Ramsey problem with different discoun

PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2016 9:32 pm
by nkhesicheng
Thank you for your help.