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Siegel's paradox

Siegel's paradox proper noun: the phenomenon that uncertainty about future prices can theoretically push rational consumers to temporarily trade away their preferred consumption goods (or currency) for non-preferred goods (or currency), as part of a plan to trade back to the preferred consumption goods after prices become clearer.

Proper noun

Siegel's paradox

  1. The phenomenon that uncertainty about future prices can theoretically push rational consumers to temporarily trade away their preferred consumption goods (or currency) for non-preferred goods (or currency), as part of a plan to trade back to the preferred consumption goods after prices become clearer.

Origin of Siegel's paradox

Identified by economist Jeremy Siegel in 1972.

Questions about Siegel's paradox

What does Siegel's paradox mean?
Siegel's paradox means the phenomenon that uncertainty about future prices can theoretically push rational consumers to temporarily trade away their preferred consumption goods (or currency) for non-preferred goods (or currency), as part of a plan to trade back to the preferred consumption goods after prices become clearer.
What part of speech is Siegel's paradox?
Siegel's paradox is a proper noun.

Words near Siegel's paradox in the dictionary

  1. Siegel discs
  2. Siegel disk
  3. Siegel disks
  4. Siegel zero
  5. Siegel zeros
  6. Siegel's paradox
  7. Siegel-Walfisz theorem
  8. siegeless
  9. siegelike
  10. Siegen
  11. Siegenian

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