Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/38749 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 450
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
We propose a simple and powerful method for determining the transition process in continuous-time DSGE models under Poisson uncertainty numerically. The idea is to transform the system of stochastic differential equations into a system of functional differential equations of the retarded type. We then use the Waveform Relaxation algorithm to provide a guess of the policy function and solve the resulting system of ordinary differential equations by standard methods and fix-point iteration. Analytical solutions are provided as a benchmark from which our numerical method can be used to explore broader classes of models. We illustrate the algorithm simulating both the stochastic neoclassical growth model and the Lucas model under Poisson uncertainty which is motivated by the Barro-Rietz rare disaster hypothesis. We find that, even for non-linear policy functions, the maximum (absolute) error is very small.
Subjects: 
Continuous-time DSGE
Optimal stochastic control
Waveform Relaxation
JEL: 
E21
G11
O41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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