st: Calculating internal rates of return

[Lars Holstenkamp <lars.holstenkamp@gmx.de>]

Dear all,

I generated random numbers for cash flows (obs=10,000) and tried to 
compute internal rate of returns for every set of data using -finirr- 
(user written). Unfortunately, there seem to be some simulation runs 
where the maximization procedure used by -finirr- fails to converge, 
i.e. no internal rate of return (IRR) can be calculated or no IRR 
exists. Therefore, I get a failure message when running my do file. Is 
there a way how to keep it going and instead produce a missing in case 
the IRR can't be computed?

Thanks,
Lars

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My code (I bet there are easier ways to do that, but anyway):
version 10.0
[...]
tsset index time
forv i=1/10000 {
   finirr CF if index==`i'
   scalar IRR`i'=r(irr)
}
generate IRR=0
forv i=1/10000 {
   replace IRR=IRR`i' if index==`i'
}
reshape wide
summ IRR
scalar IRR_m=r(mean)
scalar IRR_sd=r(sd)
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