input data issue for conditional forecast

[anitazhang]

Hi, I plan to use "conditional forecast" command to compute the shocks given values of endogenous variables. My question is related the data input of endogenous variables values. I noticed that there is "conditional_forecast_paths" command to specify those values. However, it has to follow the format:
conditional_forecast_paths;
var xx;
periods 1:n;
values xx xxx xx;
end;

But I have 21 endogenous values with 60 periods. I am wondering if there's a more efficient, easier way to input these data. For example, in the estimation command, we could specify the data set using options datafile = xxx. I wonder if there's a similar option under "conditional_forecast" command. Thanks a lot.

[jpfeifer]

Unfortunately, something like this is not available. But you can try to cheat Dynare. The constrained path are stored in

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constrained_paths_

in Dynare 4.4.3. You can try to reset this variable directly before calling

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conditional_forecast

This will require some effort and care on your part, but could be feasible.