Dear Allin, dear Riccardo, dear other contributors to the development of gretl,

as a newcomer to the gretl user forum first of all I’d like to say how impressive gretl already is – in its functionality, its user-friendliness, but also in its flexibility to incorporate other programmes or own functions through its own scripting language. For an average applied economist, almost everything is there and easily available – and that as a result of the efforts of just a few people. Congratulations and thank you very much – you’ve really succeeded in creating a wonderful programme! I’ve started using it at version 1.20 or so, and am absolutely amazed at the speed of its development!

As for SVAR functionality, which would indeed be a great new item: I’ve seen in a recent posting by Riccardo that there’s already a collection of scripts available and that one may check how they work out by oneself. May it be possible to receive these scripts?

And a question on GARCH models: is an addition of other types of models (such as TGARCH, GARCH-M, where Lee Adkins provides a solution by using the MLE in his ebook, or EGARCH, PARCH, CGARCH), and possibly an increase in the possible order of GARCH models planned?

Maybe the latter has already been discussed – if yes, I’m sorry for bringing it up again!

Thank you very much!

Best,

Joachim

(jsmend@hotmail.com)