Loading Initial and Historical Value Data

[dhcooper01]

Is there are way in dynare to load initial values or historical values from a matlab database much like you can load parameter values and use the "set_param_value" function? My sense is no from looking through the documentation and previous discussions, but I wanted to ask in case this feature has been added to the software recently.

Thanks,
Daniel

[jpfeifer]

In which context, i.e. for which command?

[dhcooper01]

for the histval or initval block of code in the .mod file.

rather than

initval;
y = log(30)
end;

I want to do something like

initval;
y = X;
end;

where X is a value stored in a matlab database corresponding to the actual level of output (GDP) in the data.

Thanks for your help.

[jpfeifer]

See the manual on

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initval_file