Daniel Arce

Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 1992

D.E.
Universidad de los Andes - 1986

M.A. - Economics
Western Michigan University - 1985

B.A - Mathematics and Spanish
Olivet College - 1984

- Foreign Study
Centro de Estudios Univeristarios Colombo-Americano - 1983

Motivating Operatives for Suicide Missions and Conventional Terrorist Attacks, with Kevin Siqueira, Journal of Theoretical Politics. forthcoming - Publication

Principals Preferences for Agents with Social Preferences, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 90(June) 154-163. 2013 - Publication

Principals Preferences for Agents with Social Preferences, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 90(June) 154-163. 2013 - Publication

Weakest-Link Attacker-Defender Games with Multiple Attack Technologies, with Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson, Naval Research Logistics, 59(6) 457-469. 2012 - Publication

A Vintage Model of Terrorism Organizations, with Joao Faria, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 56(4) 626-647. 2012 - Publication

Counterterrorism and its Impact on Terror Support and Recruitment: Accounting for  Backlash, with Joao Faria, Defence & Peace Economics, 23(5) 431-445. 2012 - Publication

Putting Agency and Integrity to the Test, Southern Economic Journal 77(4) 843-855.  2011 - Publication

An Evaluation of INTERPOL's Cooperative-Based Counterterrorism Linkages, with  Walter Enders and Todd Sandler, Journal of Law and Economics 54(1) 789-110. 2011 - Publication

Editorial Board
Defence and Peace Economics [2006–Present]

Associate Editor
Southern Economic Journal [2006–Present]

EMBA Faculty
A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University [2003–Present]

Member
Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) [2003–2005]

Robert D. McCallum Distinguished Professor
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN [2000–Present]

Thomas Fellow of Teaching Excellence
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa [2000–2000]

Invited Professor
Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires, Argentina [1998–1998]

Associate Professor
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa [1997–2000]

Visiting Professor
Pontificia Universidad Catolica [1995–1995]

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa [1991–1997]

Referee

American Economic Review; American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; BioSystems; British Journal of Political Science; Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Cambridge University Press; Contemporary Economic Policy; Defence & Peace Economics; Environmental and Development Economics; Economics Bulletin; European Journal of Political Economy; Games and Economic Behavior; Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance (Theory); Global Environmental Politics; Global Governance; International Review of Financial Analysis; International Studies Perspectives; International Studies Quarterly; Journal of Conflict Resolution; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; Journal of Evolutionary Economics; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics; Journal of InterAmerican Studies and World Affairs; Journal of Interval Computations; Journal of Latin American Perspectives; Journal of Peace Research; Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; Journal of Post Keynesian Economics; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Journal of Risk and Insurance; Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Latin American Research Review; Managerial and Decision Economics; MIT University Press; Mathematical Social Sciences; National Science Foundation; Oxford University Press; Public Finance Review; Quarterly Journal of Economics and Finance; RAND Journal of Economics; Rationality and Society; Resource & Energy Economics; Risk Analysis; Review of International Economics; Social Choice and Welfare; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Southern Economic Journal; Studies in Comparative International Development; United Nations Development Programme.

Grants

• Terrorist Spectaculars: Backlash Attacks and the Focus of Intelligence, United States Department of Homeland Security through the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events (CREATE) at the University of Southern California, grant number 2007-ST-061-00001 (with Todd Sandler).
• Mellon Foundation grant for a liberal arts economics conference, 2005.
• Inter-American Development Bank: Regional Public Goods in Latin America, May-August 2002.
• Swedish Foreign Ministry (Expert Group on Development Issues): Regional Public Goods, April-October 2001 (with Todd Sandler).
• National Institutes of Health: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Global Public Goods for Health, February- April 2001 (with Todd Sandler).
• Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade: Building NAFTA: Strategies for Economic Growth, 1995-1996.
• Fulbright Grant, South America Today to Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay during Summer 1993.
• Research Grant, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Alabama, Summer 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999.
• Research Grant, University of Alabama, Summer 1994, 1996.
• Student Fulbright Grant to study and conduct economic research in Bogotá, Colombia. July 1985 - July 1986.

HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

• Research on terrorism was featured in The Economist, Feel Safer Now?, March 6, 2008.
• Excellence in Executive Education, Class of 2007 Award, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University.
• Deans Award for Faculty Research and Creative Activity (highest faculty award), Rhodes College, 2005.
• Excellence in Executive Education, Class of 2005 Award, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University.
• Alumni Achievement Award, College of Arts & Sciences, Western Michigan University, 2004.
• Thomas 4-year Teaching Fellow ($16,000), College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Alabama.
• My course on Latin American Development (taught in Spanish) was featured in The Wall Street Journal.
• University of Illinois List of Instructors Rated Excellent by Their Students, spring 1991, fall 1990, spring 1990, spring 1989, fall 1988.
• DeMearest Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, College of Commerce, University of Illinois, 1991.
• College of Commerce Graduate Fellowship, University of Illinois, 1986-87, 1987-88.
• Floyd W. Moore Graduate Award in Economics, Western Michigan University, 1985.
• Senior Prize in Foreign Language, Olivet College, 1984.
• Senior Prize in Mathematics, Olivet College, 1984.
• Wolfgang Meider Foreign Language Scholarship, Olivet College, 1982-84.

Professor Lauded for Making Classroom Experience Feel Personal

UT Dallas professor Dr. Daniel Arce is known for his high standards and high-caliber teaching in some of the program’s largest classes. Dr. Denis Dean, dean of the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, said the logistics of big classes often are tough for teachers, but Arce excels in the situation. “His students learn the subjects; their performance in subsequent classes proves that,” Dean said. “And despite the fact that he holds their feet to the fire and holds them to high standards, his students enjoy his classes – the teaching evaluations prove that. Not many faculty members could pull off that combination of results.”

Longtime UT Dallas Professor Named Head of Economics Program

The School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS) has appointed Dr. Daniel Arce to be head of the economics program, succeeding Dr. James Murdoch.

Arce is a professor of economics and has been a UT Dallas faculty member for seven years.
Dr. Denis Dean, dean of EPPS, said Arce will continue the economic program's trend of excellent leadership.
“He works well with students, faculty and staff, and has the vision necessary to keep the program on track and moving forward,” Dean said. “Dann will contribute not only to the economics program, but to the whole school as well.“

Study Doesn't Connect WikiLeaks List to Any Terrorist Attacks

The WikiLeaks organization was criticized for providing a target list for terrorists when it published a secret memo in 2010 with 200 international sites that the U.S. Department of State considered critical to national security.

Was there any truth to that claim?

Dr. Daniel G. Arce, Ashbel Smith Professor and program head of economics in the UT Dallas School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, wanted to find out. In a new study published in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, he found no evidence that the leak led to any attacks.

Study Provides Fuller Picture of the Human Cost from Terrorist Attacks

Terrorist attacks injure far more people than they kill, leaving victims with lost limbs, hearing loss, respiratory disease, depression and other issues. But little research has measured the impact of that damage beyond the number of people who are hurt.
New research from The University of Texas at Dallas provides a more complete picture of the suffering caused by terrorist attacks. The study, published in the journal Public Choice, estimates the number of years of healthy life — years free of the injuries or disabilities caused by terrorist attacks — that victims lost due to injuries.
The study was led by Dr. Daniel G. Arce, Ashbel Smith Professor and program head of economics in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences.