In this article we consider the Merton problem in a market with a single risky asset and transaction costs. We give a complete solution of the problem up to the solution of a free-boundary problem for a first-order differential equation, and find that the form of the solution (whether the problem is well-posed, whether the problem is well-posed only for large transaction costs, whether the no-transaction wedge lies in the first, second or fourth quadrants) depends only on a quadratic whose co-efficients are functions of the parameters of the problem, and then only through the value and slope of this quadratic at zero, one and the turning point.
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