Ethnic division combined with high levels of unemployment is a recipe for volatility.

That is why it appears safer to predict high volatility in 2010 than to predict that home prices will rise.

Time and experience will help that is, so long as high volatility does not destabilize many economies in the interim.

(e) Price volatility

Yet this global construct comes under pressure in an environment in which advanced countries have stubbornly high unemployment and bouts of financial volatility.

That is all the more important in periods like the current one of rapid change, high volatility, and only partly predictable systemic instability.

He points to the high volatility of the dollar euro rate over the last decade, and its adverse consequences for economic activity in Europe.

Where Did Market Volatility Go?

UNOPS management proposes to work out a strategy to address the fundamental problems of income volatility and high fixed costs that characterize the existing organizational arrangements.

Banks and investors consider them to be high risk due to their limited assets, low level or lack of collateral, lack of business history and market volatility.

In addition, low volatility of inflation relative to the volatility of RER depreciation may be needed to lead to de dollarization.

One apparent consequence is extreme price volatility.

Surely, today s low volatility is partly cyclical.

We also know that stabilization funds which set aside some of the money earned when prices are high can help reduce the economic volatility associated with natural resource prices.

Indeed, there is volatility just beneath the surface.

Price volatility has also been high for commodities that are not traded in futures markets (copper, iron, and ore), or for which these markets are not important (steel and rice)

Global economic instability correlates strongly with energy price volatility.

Such volatility does not fit a fundamentals driven market.

That prospect has already sparked renewed financial market volatility.

But what it immediately did was that the volatility that had been present in terms of our economic development where, even if oil prices were high, we would grow very fast.

A volatility feedback loop begins the more volatility, the more people feel they must pay attention to the market, and hence the more erratic their trades.

Security problems and disruptions in production also increased price volatility.

They are expensive and a source of political and supply volatility.

It should also reduce the high levels of exchange rate volatility a tax on international specialization, as the economist Charles Kindleberger once put it that we have seen in recent years, including among major currencies.

This has led to heightened volatility in equity, money, and debt markets.

In a turbulent world of market volatility, however, they risk being overwhelmed.

Second, natural resource prices are volatile, and managing this volatility is hard.

But both theoretical and simulation results suggest no obvious decline in volatility.

MILAN Since the global economic crisis, sharp divergences in economic performance have contributed to considerable stock market volatility. Now, equity prices are reaching relatively high levels by conventional measures and investors are starting to get nervous.

Unemployment is now running at over 40 in Kosovo and breeds political volatility.

Weather related events are a major cause of price volatility on agricultural markets.

The more energy efficient one is, the lower one s vulnerability to price volatility.

In chemistry and physics, volatility is the tendency of a substance to vaporize.

They should also mitigate the impact of the excessive volatility of financial markets.

The aim should be to avoid volatility and to ensure stability and fairness.

This is small potatoes compared to the significant run up in prices that world markets have been experiencing recently, and it would in any case be swamped by the high volatility to which these markets are normally subject.

But some countries show strong resilience in the face of pervasive violence and volatility.

But Volcker has also been a prominent critic of the dangers of currency volatility.

The authorities have tolerated somewhat greater volatility in domestic inflation rates as a consequence.

Thus, when volatility spikes and liquidity dries up, those same banks scramble for dollars.

From the beginning, members of his entourage worried about his volatility and mental balance.

Normal financing is not forthcoming. Only grants from the US will reduce output volatility.

One would hope that his removal would reduce market volatility and stabilize oil prices.

Immense market volatility serves only to reinforce people s sense that something is really wrong.

There will always be foreign short term flows that can increase a currency s volatility.