This directory contains files used to compute nonlinear decision
functions for the period of the Great Depression, see:

    Business Cycle Accounting
    Staff Report 328
    by V.V. Chari, Patrick Kehoe, and Ellen McGrattan

The main results are in ../results/*.dat which are created
by running benchsim.m or caputsim.m (in this directory) with the 
appropriate bench.dat, caputil.dat, or adjcost.dat file read in.  
For details on creating the figures, see the README in the ./results
directory.  For full details on the computation, see the appendix 
in directory ./tex/appendices.

FILE             DESCRIPTION
------------     ----------------------------------------------------
adjcost.f90      Extension of bench.f90 to allow for adjustment costs
adjcost.inp.*    Input files for adjcost.f90
adjcost.dat.*    Output files from adjcost.f90, inputs for benchsim.m
adjcostplots.m   Plots results for adjustment-cost model in the paper
bench.f90        Code to compute equilibria in benchmark model
bench.inp.*      Input files for bench.f90
bench.dat.*      Output files from bench.f90, inputs for benchsim.m
benchplots.m     Plots results for benchmark prototype model in the paper
benchsim.m       Plots results from bench.f90 or adjcost.f90
bfunc.m          Plots decision rules for bench.f90
caputil.f90      Code to compute equilibria w/ variable capital utilization
caputil.inp.*    Input files for caputil.f90
caputil.dat.*    Output files from caputil.f90, inputs for caputsim.m
caputplots.m     Plots results for variable capital utilization model in paper
caputsim.m       Plots results from caputil.f90
comp             Compilation command, for use with Portland Group F90
cufunc.m         Plots decision rules for caputil.f90
mleout*.mat      Stored results from MLE estimation
setup.m          Sets up state vector and transition matrix for bench.f90
setupadj*.m      Sets up state vector and transition matrix for adjcost.f90
setupcu.m        Sets up state vector and transition matrix for caputil.f90
tauch3D*.m       Computes transition probabilities for 3D Markov Chain
tauchen*.mat     Intermediates file created by setup*.m


Ellen McGrattan
October, 2006