DP5613 Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations
Author(s): | Gilles Saint-Paul |
Publication Date: | April 2006 |
Keyword(s): | comparative advantage, gene-culture co-evolution, genotypes, trade |
JEL(s): | J1, J22 |
Programme Areas: | Labour Economics |
Link to this Page: | cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5613 |
This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction.