In: Economics
The pareto-optimal allocations would be where
. For the consumer A, we have the utility as
, and the marginal rate of substitution would be as
or
or
or
or
or
. It can be also found as
, which would yield the same result.
For consumer B too, we have the same utility as
, and the marginal rate of substitution would be as
or
or
or
or
or
.
The pareto-optimal allocation in this case would hence be where
or
or
. The feasibility conditions are
and
or
and
, where
and
are the (given) endowments of A and B.
Putting this to the pareto-optimal condition, we have
or
or
or
or
, which is the contract curve, and is an equation of straight line
through the origin.