Dennis Hoffman
Director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute
W. P. Carey School of Business - Arizona State University
Professor Dennis L. Hoffman is Director of the L. William Seidman Research Institute at the W. P. Carey
School of Business at Arizona State University.
He has published numerous academic articles and a book in the area of macroeconomics and
econometrics. He is director of ASU’s Office of the University Economist and has received both teaching
and research awards from ASU, including the Distinguished Faculty Research Award and designation as
a Dean’s Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar. His research has been supported by the National Science
Foundation and he has served as a Fulbright research scholar. He served as a visiting research scholar at
the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis during the summer of 1996. In 1997, Dr. Hoffman was named the
Arizona Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. Dr. Hoffman has served as Associate Dean for
Graduate Programs and Associate Dean for Research in the W. P. Carey School of Business and in 2010
was appointed by the Governor to serve on the board of the Arizona State Retirement System and to chair
a working group for the sales tax simplification effort.
Dr. Hoffman’s sponsored project efforts include the construction and maintenance of the tax revenue
forecasting model used by the Executive Budget Office of the State of Arizona each year since 1982.
Hoffman headed groups of economists who measured the economic impact of several fiscal initiatives for
the State of Arizona in 1989 and in 1990. Dr. Hoffman has conducted considerable contract research over
the last several years, including projects for most of the major businesses across the State of Arizona, for
several State agencies and numerous foundations across the State. Dr. Hoffman has closely studied the
regional economy in Arizona. His extensive experience positions him for his research interests that
include defining and measuring the role of research universities in regional development, quantifying the
value of education investments to the economic prosperity of a region, and measuring the impact of
various fiscal initiatives on regional development. He is a frequent guest on broadcast news programs and
is frequently quoted in business articles for newspapers across the State.