Phelim P. Boyle (born 1941), is an Irish economist and

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and actuary, and a pioneer of

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. He is best known for initiating the use of

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s in

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Biography

Born on a farm in Lavey, County Londonderry,

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, Phelim Boyle attended Dreenan School, Garron Tower and

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(

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) He earned his

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in 1966 and

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in 1970

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, specialising in

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, from

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. He is a professor of finance in the Laurier School of Business & Economics at

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. Until June 2006 he held the J Page R Wadsworth Chair at the

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. He is the founder of the

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(MQF) program there. Additional to his contributions to quantitative finance, he has published papers on actuarial science and

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. Together with his son, Feidhlim Boyle, he authored ''Derivatives: the Tools that Changed Finance''. He continues to contribute in the area of

. He has been awarded the Centennial Gold Medal of the

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, and was the recipient of the IAFE/

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Financial Engineer of the Year in 2005. In 2019, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Work

Boyle is best known for initiating the use of

s in

. Other well-known contributions in the area of

include the use of the Trinomial method to price options. His seminal work on Monte Carlo-based

facilitated the 1980s explosion in the world of derivatives.

Publications

Boyle has authored and co-authored numerous articles.complete list
wilmottwiki A selection: * Boyle, Phelim P.

" Journal of Financial Economics 4.3 (1977): 323-338. * Boyle, Phelim P. "A lattice framework for option pricing with two state variables." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 23.1 (1988): 1-12. * Boyle, Phelim P., Jeremy Evnine, and Stephen Gibbs. "Numerical evaluation of multivariate contingent claims." Review of Financial Studies 2.2 (1989): 241-250. * Boyle, Phelim P., and Ton Vorst. "Option replication in discrete time with transaction costs." The Journal of Finance 47.1 (1992): 271-293. * Boyle, Phelim, Mark Broadie, and Paul Glasserman. "Monte Carlo methods for security pricing." Journal of economic dynamics and control 21.8 (1997): 1267-1321.

References

External links

*
The Actuary Magazine: An Interview With Dr. Phelim BoyleDerivatives: The Tools That Changed Finance
thederivativesbook.com (Archived). {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyle, Phelim Living people Canadian actuaries British actuaries Monte Carlo methodologists Canadian economists Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Financial economists 1941 births Wilfrid Laurier University faculty University of Waterloo faculty People from County Londonderry Alumni of Queen's University Belfast

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