diff --git a/src/MacroExpandModFile.cc b/src/MacroExpandModFile.cc
index e3ff96f1c69f11a80a7fec7d2924a39141eb3645..09dc03486bcd91bc58ad12380370f2557a6cd123 100644
--- a/src/MacroExpandModFile.cc
+++ b/src/MacroExpandModFile.cc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright © 2015-2020 Dynare Team
+ * Copyright © 2015-2023 Dynare Team
  *
  * This file is part of Dynare.
  *
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ macroExpandModFile(const string &filename, const string &basename, const istream
   stringstream macro_output;
   macro::Environment env = macro::Environment();
   macro::Driver m;
-  m.parse(filename, basename, modfile, debug, defines, env, paths, macro_output);
+  m.parse(filename, modfile, debug, defines, env, paths, macro_output);
   if (save_macro)
     {
       if (save_macro_file.empty())
diff --git a/src/macro/Directives.cc b/src/macro/Directives.cc
index c8ca289813a77e48414ab09f41bdc2bd3cd535c7..5d160a348fc60e1369178470def28383ba6a3169 100644
--- a/src/macro/Directives.cc
+++ b/src/macro/Directives.cc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright © 2019-2022 Dynare Team
+ * Copyright © 2019-2023 Dynare Team
  *
  * This file is part of Dynare.
  *
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Include::interpret(ostream &output, Environment &env, vector<filesystem::path> &
          bug in GCC/MinGW 10.2 (shipped in Debian “Bullseye” 11), that fails
          to accept implicit conversion to string from filename::path. See
          https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/path/native. */
-      m.parse(filename.string(), filename.stem().string(), incfile, false, {}, env, paths, output);
+      m.parse(filename.string(), incfile, false, {}, env, paths, output);
     }
   catch (StackTrace &ex)
     {
diff --git a/src/macro/Driver.cc b/src/macro/Driver.cc
index 85743f042d82b1ae88df521a5c34f3bdaacf8ab0..cffdd0c17a228250df674fe0090453950193a948 100644
--- a/src/macro/Driver.cc
+++ b/src/macro/Driver.cc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright © 2019-2022 Dynare Team
+ * Copyright © 2019-2023 Dynare Team
  *
  * This file is part of Dynare.
  *
@@ -25,12 +25,11 @@
 using namespace macro;
 
 void
-Driver::parse(const string &file_arg, const string &basename_arg, const istream &modfile,
+Driver::parse(const string &file_arg, const istream &modfile,
               bool debug, const vector<pair<string, string>> &defines,
               Environment &env, vector<filesystem::path> &paths, ostream &output)
 {
   file = file_arg;
-  basename = basename_arg;
 
   if (!defines.empty())
     {
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@ Driver::parse(const string &file_arg, const string &basename_arg, const istream
         command_line_defines_with_endl << "@#define " << var << " = " << val << endl;
       Driver m;
       istream is(command_line_defines_with_endl.rdbuf());
-      m.parse("command_line_defines", "command_line_defines", is, debug, {}, env, paths, output);
+      m.parse("command_line_defines", is, debug, {}, env, paths, output);
     }
 
   stringstream file_with_endl;
diff --git a/src/macro/Driver.hh b/src/macro/Driver.hh
index b3a897dcbec4d72b9ab004550420ffc5f9da4c4f..ad287cc8592890cb0203479a1e50f2e893204d2b 100644
--- a/src/macro/Driver.hh
+++ b/src/macro/Driver.hh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright © 2019-2022 Dynare Team
+ * Copyright © 2019-2023 Dynare Team
  *
  * This file is part of Dynare.
  *
@@ -76,16 +76,13 @@ namespace macro
 
     //! Starts parsing a file, modifies `env`, `paths` and `output`
     //! as they are modified by various macro directives
-    void parse(const string &file, const string &basename, const istream &modfile,
+    void parse(const string &file, const istream &modfile,
                bool debug, const vector<pair<string, string>> &defines,
                Environment &env, vector<filesystem::path> &paths, ostream &output);
 
-    //! Name of main file being parsed
+    //! Name of main file being parsed (for error reporting purposes)
     string file;
 
-    //! Basename of main file being parsed
-    string basename;
-
     //! Reference to the lexer
     unique_ptr<TokenizerFlex> lexer;