good point -- let DSGE be the catalyst clarifying how good work becomes welcome METADATA, once conformantly named & person seen.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:08 AM, David Anthoff <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t think that the package should be registered as DSGE, though. DSGE > is a type of model, and there are lots and lots of those around. The repo > from the NY Fed is their specific DSGE model, it is one example of a DSGE > model. I think a package that in general provided methods to solve DSGE > models, or define them etc. might be registered as DSGE, but not this > specific model. But even for such a general package, I’m not sure it should > be named DSGE: there are lots of different solution methods for DSGE > models, and I think different packages might try different implementations > (the situation might be a little bit like the various MCMC packages > floating around). In those cases it is not clear to me that one of these > packages should be allowed to “own” the official name… > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *On Behalf Of *Tony Kelman > *Sent:* Thursday, December 3, 2015 6:17 PM > *To:* julia-users <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [julia-users] Re: ANN: DSGE.jl > > > > DSGE is against the usual naming guidelines of trying to avoid acronyms, > but at least this one is unambiguously googlable with one dominant result. > I'd never heard of it as a non-economist, but given this is a big project > from a major institution we can perhaps make an exception to the usual > guidelines. > > > > On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 1:20:51 PM UTC-8, Patrick Kofod Mogensen > wrote: > > Fellow economist here, great stuff! I'm curious to see what choices were > made, and how it compares to other DSGE toolboxes and tools out there. > > Is it going to be registered in METADATA? If so, would a name like DSGE be > "allowed"? > > On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 3:05:57 PM UTC+1, Spencer Lyon wrote: > > The Federal Reserve bank of New York has finished moving their fairly > large DSGE model from Matlab to Julia. This model is used inside the Fed > for forecasting and policy analysis. > > > > As part of the move to Julia, the code base has been open sourced. > > > > A blog post announcing the release is here: > http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/12/the-frbny-dsge-model-meets-julia.html > > > > And the repository can be found here: > https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl > > > > > >
