Solving SS with external file

[leonard007]

Hello everybody,
It was a very helpful post. But I have a question how I could adapt these examples with my problem. I attached my file to this post. I want to externally find the ss and then add that to .m file to solve the DSGE model.
Thanks a lot

[jpfeifer]

Given that you work with initval and there is no analytical steady state computation, there is no point in using a steady state file.

[JaniceTaylor]

The SS-file passes the parameters from Dynare to your code and then back to Dynare.

[leonard007]

Dear Taylor,
Thanks for the reply, But How?

[jpfeifer]

How what? I don't really understand what you are trying to do. JaniceTaylor seems to be spam with a generic statement.

[leonard007]

Dear Professor Pfeifer,
Thank you for your advise.
My codes in dynare is the (lucas3.mod). In order to calculate the steady state (to put in dynare as initials), I wrote some coeds in Octave, so that I can put the values of (Omegabar , Qbar) in my dynare code and solve it. It is my question : How can I add the codes of steady state to my dynare code so that just by running dynare , the values of steady states directly return to dynare form the .m file of steady state. I read the manual and some examples, therefore I put those code in a .m file as a function (lucas4_steady_state_helper.m) and asked dynare to calculate the function in the section "steady_state_model;", but it does not work.
In the other words, I would like to know how I can ask dynare to go to other files, run them and put their result in its own codes!
the best,
Loe

[jpfeifer]

What is your question? It doesn't seem you have an analytical steady state. Thus, you cannot use a steady state file. It rather seems you use Octave to compute starting values for the actual steady state computation. That is something completely different.

[leonard007]

No, my solution is numerical one, because the system equations which solves the endogenous states variables in my model is rather complected and it is difficult to have a closed-form one.
So in this case it is not possible to use steady state file. Thank you for the great help and thank you for explaining it.

[jpfeifer]

In that case, what you can always do is assign your preliminary results to defined parameters and then assign them in the initval block.