The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Honors Theses Honors College Spring 5-2019 The Economic Impact of the 2018 Conference USA Baseball Tournament on the Mississippi Gulf Coast Jonathan Brent University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses Part of the Growth and Development Commons Recommended Citation Brent, Jonathan, "The Economic Impact of the 2018 Conference USA Baseball Tournament on the Mississippi Gulf Coast" (2019). Honors Theses. 661. https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/661 This Honors College Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College at The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi The Economic Impact of the 2018 Conference USA Baseball Tournament on the Mississippi Gulf Coast By Jonathan Brent A Thesis Submitted to the Honors College of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science of Business Administration in the School of Accountancy May 2019 ii Approved by Chad Miller, Ph.D., Thesis Adviser, College of Business and Economic Development Marvin Bouillon, Ph.D., Chair, School of Accountancy Ellen Weinauer, Ph.D., Dean Honors College iii Abstract This study aims to measure the economic impact of the 2018 Conference USA Baseball Tournament on the Mississippi Gulf Coast compared to holding the college sporting event at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.