Twicking shock_decomposition in Dynare 4.1

[EconStudent]

Hello everybody,

I'm estimating a medium-size model with measurement error and different shocks. I want to get an idea on how to graph only the contribution of certain shocks of interest to my series.
Suppose I have as variables : var1, var2, var3.
And suppose I have as shocks: eps1, eps2, eps3, measurement_err1, measurement_err2, measurement_err3.

The only command I've noticed to work for the shock_decomposition in Dynare 4.1 is:
shock_decomposition var1 var2 var3; The problem is that if you have many shocks, it plots all of them and the colors look too similar to tell apart.

How should I go if i wanted to see for var1 and var2 only the contribution of eps1 and eps2 for example. It has to be done in the 4.1 version.


Many thanks !!!

[jpfeifer]

The easiest way is to do the graph yourself by using the results stored in oo_.shock_decomposition. It should be a three-dimensional array where the first dimension is the endogenous variables, the second dimension the shocks, and the third dimension the period.

[EconStudent]

Thank you for your answer jpheifer, this will be of great help.