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Mr. Sarkozy insisted that all markets must have rules and regulators, and he spoke of trying to reduce volatility in currencies by reducing the world's reliance on the United States dollar as a reserve currency.
Meantime, to help smooth out the impact of U.S. sales volatility, Volvo has cut costs at its Mack plants by reducing the number of engine designs to 2 from 18 and the number of suppliers to 100 from 400.
It will enhance trust and much needed market resiliency by reducing the dominant activity of certain leveraged speculators whose market making liquidity can be temporary and whose trend following trades contribute to near term volatility.
Some schools are trying to reduce the volatility by cutting their dependence on their endowments.
The central bank, by controlling inflation, can dramatically reduce the volatility of business cycles.
"By reforming the market, we can ensure security of supply for the long term, reduce the volatility of energy bills by reducing our reliance on imported gas and oil, and meet our climate change goals by largely decarbonizing the power sector during the 2030s," Mr. Davey said in a statement.
The International Maritime Exchange, in Oslo, a competitor, estimates that the futures market will grow by another 80% by the end of 2004.More use of hedging should, in theory, reduce the volatility of shipping rates, and thus mean smaller swings between market peaks and troughs.
In the context of a GARCH-in-Mean model, we show that both solar and wind power Granger cause electricity prices, that solar power generation reduces the volatility of electricity prices by scaling down the use of peak-load power plants, and that wind power generation increases the volatility of electricity prices by challenging electricity market flexibility.
