A 300-Year History of Sumo Wrestling: An Economics Perspective
暫譯: 相撲摔跤的三百年歷史：經濟學的視角

Eiji Yamamura is professor of economics at Seinan-Gakuin University, in Fukuoka, Japan. He earned his B.A. and M.A. from Waseda University and a Ph.D. from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1995, 1999, and 2004, respectively. His debut work was published in Socio-Economic History, the most prestigious peer-reviewed journal in the field of economic history research in Japan. Subsequently, while publishing papers in various peer-reviewed journals, he has continuously deepened his research on the economic history of sumo wrestling. He has been the executive director of the Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance 2021-2023 and chief editor of Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance since 2023. His research topics are behavioral economics, sports economics, quantitative economic history, income distribution, and household behavior. He has published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals including Social Science Japan Journal, Regional Studies, Papers in Regional Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, European Journal of Political Economy, Review of World Economics, Review of International Economics, Economics of Education Review, Public Choice, Economics of Governance, Southern Economic Journal, Review of Economics of the Household, Kyklos, Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Sports Economics, Social Science and Medicine, and the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies.

山村英治是日本福岡西南學院大學的經濟學教授。他於1995年、1999年和2004年分別獲得早稻田大學的學士和碩士學位，以及東京 metropolitan 大學的博士學位。他的首部作品發表在《社會經濟史》上，這是日本經濟史研究領域中最具聲望的同行評審期刊。隨後，他在各種同行評審期刊上發表論文，持續深入研究相撲的經濟歷史。他曾擔任行為經濟學與金融協會的執行董事（2021-2023），並自2023年起擔任《行為經濟學與金融期刊》的主編。他的研究主題包括行為經濟學、體育經濟學、定量經濟歷史、收入分配和家庭行為。他在同行評審期刊上發表了超過130篇論文，包括《社會科學日本期刊》、《區域研究》、《區域科學論文》、《經濟學與統計評論》、《經濟行為與組織期刊》、《人口經濟學期刊》、《經濟地理期刊》、《歐洲政治經濟學期刊》、《世界經濟評論》、《國際經濟評論》、《教育經濟學評論》、《公共選擇》、《治理經濟學》、《南方經濟期刊》、《家庭經濟學評論》、《Kyklos》、《文化經濟學期刊》、《體育經濟學期刊》、《社會科學與醫學》和《日本與國際經濟期刊》。