Exchange Economies (revisited) No production, only endowments,so no description of how resources are converted to consumables. General equilibrium: all markets clear simultaneously. 1st and 2nd Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics
1 Principal and Interest 2 Present Value 3 Present and Future Value of Streams 4 Internal Rate of Return 5 Evaluation Criteria 6 Applications and Extensions
1 a) Buy IBX stock in Tokyo and simultaneously sell them in NY, and your arbitrage profit is $2 per share. b)The prices will converge. c)Instead of the prices becoming exactly equal, there can remain 1%% discrepancy between
These notes essentially tie up a few loose ends in Lecture 8; in particular, I exhibit examples of inefficiencies in first- and second-price auctions. I would also like to briefly comment on Questions 1 and 2 in Problem Set 2