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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2011 ii Paper 1 29J iii Solution by
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Assume and keep , . The constraint is . If the unrestricted optimum in (i) lies in this half-space, it remains optimal. Its cash holding isThus 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. ThereforeIn particular,The multiplier for the inequality is , explicitly checking the complementary-slackness condition.
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