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ECON 337901
FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
Peter Ireland
Boston College
February 2, 2021
These lecture notes by Peter Ireland are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
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Course Administration
Course webpage:
http://irelandp.com/econ3379.html
Notes/slides, handouts, problems sets and solutions, oldexams.
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Course Administration
Book:
Jean-Pierre Danthine and John Donaldson, IntermediateFinancial Theory, Second (2005) or Third (2014) edition.
Recommended, but not required.
Third edition is freely available in electronic form via BClibraries.
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Course Administration
Grading:
Homeworks: 1/3
Take-Home Midterm: 1/3
Take-Home Final: 1/3
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Course Administration
Academic integrity:
https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/academics/
sites/university-catalog/policies-procedures.html
It’s fine to work with other students on the homeworks, butplease hand in our own answers for the purposes of grading.
Your work on the midterm and final should be yours and yoursalone.
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1 Mathematical and Economic Foundations
A Mathematical Preliminaries
1 Unconstrained Optimization2 Constrained Optimization
B Consumer Optimization
1 Graphical Analysis2 Algebraic Analysis3 The Time Dimension4 The Risk Dimension
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Mathematical Preliminaries
Unconstrained Optimization
maxx
F (x)
Constrained Optimization
maxx
F (x) subject to c ≥ G (x)
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Unconstrained Optimization
To find the value of x that solves
maxx
F (x)
you can:
1. Try out every possible value of x .
2. Use calculus.
Since search could take forever, let’s use calculus instead.
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Unconstrained Optimization
Theorem If x∗ solves
maxx
F (x),
then x∗ is a critical point of F , that is,
F ′(x∗) = 0.
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Unconstrained Optimization
F (x) maximized at x∗ = 5
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Unconstrained Optimization
F ′(x) > 0 when x < 5. F (x) can be increased by increasing x .
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Unconstrained Optimization
F ′(x) < 0 when x > 5. F (x) can be increased by decreasing x .
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Unconstrained Optimization
F ′(x) = 0 when x = 5. F (x) is maximized.
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Unconstrained Optimization
Theorem If x∗ solves
maxx
F (x),
then x∗ is a critical point of F , that is,
F ′(x∗) = 0.
Note that the same first-order necessary condition F ′(x∗) = 0also characterizes a value of x∗ that minimizes F (x).
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Unconstrained Optimization
F ′(x) = 0 when x = 5. F (x) is minimized.
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Unconstrained Optimization
F ′(x) = 0 and F ′′(x) < 0 when x = 5. F (x) is maximized.
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Unconstrained Optimization
F ′(x) = 0 and F ′′(x) > 0 when x = 5. F (x) is minimized.
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Unconstrained Optimization
Theorem If x∗ solves
maxx
F (x),
then x∗ is a critical point of F , that is,
F ′(x∗) = 0.
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Unconstrained Optimization
Theorem If
F ′(x∗) = 0 and F ′′(x∗) < 0,
then x∗ solves
maxx
F (x)
(at least locally).
The first-order condition F ′(x∗) = 0 and the second-ordercondition F ′′(x∗) < 0 are sufficient conditions for the value ofx that (locally) maximizes F (x).
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Unconstrained Optimization
F ′(x∗∗) = 0 and F ′′(x∗∗) < 0 at the local maximizer x∗∗ andF ′(x∗) = 0 and F ′′(x∗) < 0 at the global maximizer x∗.
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Unconstrained Optimization
F ′(x∗∗) = 0 and F ′′(x∗∗) < 0 at the local maximizer x∗∗ andF ′(x∗) = 0 and F ′′(x∗) < 0 at the global maximizer x∗, butF ′′(x) > 0 in between x∗ and x∗∗.
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Unconstrained Optimization
Theorem If
F ′(x∗) = 0
and
F ′′(x) < 0 for all x ∈ R,
then x∗ solves
maxx
F (x).
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Unconstrained Optimization
F ′′(x) < 0 for all x ∈ R and F ′(5) = 0. F (x) is maximizedwhen x = 5.
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Unconstrained Optimization
If F ′′(x) < 0 for all x ∈ R, then the function F is concave.
When F is concave, the first-order condition F ′(x∗) = 0 isboth necessary and sufficient for the value of x that maximizesF (x).
And, as we are about to see, concave functions arise frequentlyand naturally in economics and finance.