Installing Mosek and Eigen

Both rdbb and dbbpy rely on Mosekarrow-up-right to perform the optimization task underlying the model in Pazarbasi, Altan, Schneider, Paul Georg, and Vilkov, Grigory. Dispersion of Beliefs Bounds: Sentimental Recovery. Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 19-57, Management Science, forthcoming, available at SSRNarrow-up-right or DOIarrow-up-right. Eigenarrow-up-right is required to perform linar algebra operations. This page aims to guide the user in the process of installing Mosek and Eigen on diffent operative systems.

Installing Mosek

To use Mosek a commercial license is necessary. More about license can be found at this linkarrow-up-right and it is relevant that Mosek provides a personal academic licensearrow-up-right and a trial licensearrow-up-right.

Then the user has to download the Mosek binaryarrow-up-right appropriate for their operating system and, based on the operative system should:

  • run the installer and follow the prompts

  • add the installation directory to the system PATH as:

MOSEK_HOME = <MOSEK>\mosek\10.2\tools\platform\<PLATFORM>

where

  • <MOSEK> is the folder in which the MOSEK Optimization Suite has been installed

  • <PLATFORM> is the actual platform among those supported by MOSEK, i.e. win64x86, linux64x86 or osx64x86.

Installing Eigen

Visit Eigen websitearrow-up-right and download the latest stable distribution. Then, based on your OS:

Extract the downloaded zip file to a desired location, e.g., C:\Eigen

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