February 24, 2004

Mean-Variance Analysis

We put the past couple of lectures together to develop mean-variance analysis. The budget constraint comes from the "aX+b" rules. The indifference curves comes from the fourth panel of the handout.

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Different agents might well have different indifference curves and, hence, different optimal portfolios.

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Changing information about the available securities will lead to portfolio adjustments and trading.

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Posted by bparke at 11:09 PM