On behalf of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER), University of Southern Mississippi, greetings and welcome to the Mississippi Regional Economic Analysis Project. Using the interactive regional economic tools of analysis at your disposal on this website, we invite you to conduct your own research to examine and assess changing economic conditions and trends of your county or region of interest. University of Southern Mississippi The BBER, housed in the College of Business, serves as an additional point of contact between the college and the regional business community. The BBER is a primary provider of timely and relevant business and economic information including economic forecasting at the regional level, information about important regional economic trends, and limited fee based business services. ![]() ![]() If your interests align with examining broader trends across the Mississippi's regional landscape, apply the interactive diagnostics available at the "click of a mouse" and select from among an assortment of principal indicators of major importance: Investigate a topic all too often overlooked relating to how the changing mix and role of property income, transfer payments, earned income, and their contributions to growth, have transformed the Mississippi regional economy against the backdrop of changes nationwide. The cornerstone of the Mississippi Regional Economic Analysis Project is the annual data compiled by the Regional Income Division of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce encompassing more than 4 decades−from 1969 to 2008. To compare and assess Mississippi's economy in contrast with other states of your choosing, enlist the use of the "Comparative Trends Analysis" in the United States Regional Economic Analysis Project ![]() |