"The State of the State of Arizona - Economic Forecast for the Coming Year"


About Speaker
Dr. Dennis Hoffman, Professor of Economics,
Director, L. William Seidman Research Institute

Dr. Hoffman is a Professor of Economics at Arizona State University where he has published numerous academic articles and a book in the area of macroeconomics and econometrics, chaired several Ph.D. and Master's committees and taught in the graduate sequence in Econometrics each year since 1979. He has received both teaching and research awards from ASU. He received the Distinguished Faculty Research Award (the highest award for achievement in research at the College of Business at ASU) in 1992. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and The Prochnow Foundation. In 1993 Professor Hoffman was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant to support research and present several seminars on the results of his research throughout Europe. He lectured in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, and Greece. He served as a visiting research scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis during the summer of 1996.

Dr. Hoffman's academic work has been in the area of empirical macroeconomic modeling and applied econometrics. His recent monograph Aggregate Money Demand Functions, coauthored with Professor Robert H. Rasche tackles the empirical money demand relation. The book reviews the vast literature on the subject and develops a framework for empirical research -- devoting considerable attention to the econometrics of nonstationarities. The techniques discussed in the book have wide ranging applications. Dr. Hoffman's related work has recently appeared in the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, and the Journal of Applied Econometrics.

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