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Optimization in economies with nonconvexities

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Conditions under which the Classical Lagrangian serves as an exact penalization of a nonconvex programming of a constrained optimization problems in economics are given.
Abstract
Nonconvex optimization is becoming the fashion to solve constrained optimization problems in economics. Classical Lagrangian does not necessarily represent a nonconvex optimization problem. In this paper, we give conditions under which the Classical Lagrangian serves as an exact penalization of a nonconvex programming. This has a simple interpretation and is easy to solve. We use this Classical Lagrangian to provide su¢ cient conditions under which value function is Clarke dif"

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