Profile
Daniel G. Arce M. is Professor of Economics and affiliate of the Center for International Collective Action. He joined the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences in 2007.
Professor Arce is an applied game theorist who conducts research on business ethics, collective action, conflict, terrorism, and Latin American economies. He is the editor of Defence & Peace Economics and a member of the editorial board of The Southern Economic Journal.
Professor Arce holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MA in Economics from Western Michigan University and a BA in Spanish and Mathematics from Olivet College (MI). He was also a student at the Universidad de los Andes and the Centro de Estudios Universitarios Colombo-Americano in Bogotá.Past Work Experience
- McCallum Distinguished Professor of Economics, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 2000-07.
- Department of Economics, Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Alabama, 1991-2000.
- Invited Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires, 1999.
- Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Lima, Perú, 1995.
teaching
Economic Growth and Development, Executive MBAs – Micro/Managerial Economics, Game Theory (Ph.D, masters and undergraduate, in English and Spanish), Global Public Goods, Intermediate Microeconomics, Econometrics (undergraduate), Introductory Microeconomics, Introductory Economics, Latin American Economic Development (in English and Spanish), Managerial Economics, Mathematical Economics, Statistics (undergraduate), Business Spanish section of Spanish Conversation, Business Spanish Practicum.
Professor Arce’s course on Latin American Development (taught in Spanish) was featured in The Wall Street Journal.
Awards & honors
Dean’s Award for Faculty Research and Creative Activity, Rhodes College, 2005.
Excellence in Executive Education, Class of 2005 Award, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University (Houston Campus).
Alumni Achievement Award, College of Arts & Sciences, Western Michigan University, 2004.
Thomas Fellow of Teaching Excellence, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Alabama.
Fulbright Grant, South America Today to Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay during Summer 1993.
University of Illinois List of Instructors Rated Excellent by Their Students, Spring 1991, Fall 1990, Spring 1990, Spring 1989, Fall 1988.
Fulbright Grant to study and conduct economic research in Bogotá, Colombia. 1985 - 1986.
select publications
‘The Commons’ and ‘Nash Equilibrium,’ entries in Encyclopedia of Business Ethics, Sage Publications, forthcoming.
Is Agency Theory Self-Activating?, Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45(4) 708-20.
Terrorist Signaling and the Value of Intelligence, British Journal of Political Science, 2007, 37: 576-586 (with Todd Sandler).
Terrorism: A Game-Theoretic Approach, Chapter 25 in Handbook of Defense Economics, Vol 2, 2007, Elsevier North-Holland (with Todd Sandler).
Taking Corporate Culture Seriously: Group Effects in the Trust Game, Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 73(1) 27-36.
Working Well With Others: The Evolution of Teamwork and Ethics, Public Choice, 2005, 123(1-2) 115-131 (with L. Beth Gunn).
Counterterrorism: A Game-Theoretic Approach, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2005, 49(2) 183-200 (with Todd Sandler).
Terrorism Support and Recruitment, Defence and Peace Economics, 2005, 16(4) 263-73 (with João Faria).
The Dilemma of the Prisoners’ Dilemmas, Kyklos, 2005, 58(1) 3-24 (with Todd Sandler).
Leading By Example and International Collective Action, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2005, 7(1) 51-63 (with André Rossi and João Faria).
Conspicuous By Its Absence: Ethics and Managerial Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, 2004, 54(3) 259-275.
Pure Public Goods versus Commons: Benefit-Cost Duality, Land Economics, 2003, 79(3) 355-68 (with Todd Sandler).
An Evolutionary Game Approach to Fundamentalism and Conflict, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2003, 34(3) 319-37 (with Todd Sandler).
Leadership and the Aggregation of International Collective Action, Oxford Economic Papers, 2001, 53(1) 114-137.- Updated: January 8, 2008
