Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2011/ii/paper-1/29j/iii/solution

Assume and keep , . The constraint is . If the unrestricted optimum in (i) lies in this half-space, it remains optimal. Its cash holding is
Thus it has strictly positive cash precisely when . If , the free optimum violates the constraint, so strict concavity and the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions put the optimum on the boundary, where it is the cash-free solution in (ii). At equality the two solutions coincide. Therefore
In particular,
The multiplier for the inequality is , explicitly checking the complementary-slackness condition.

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