DP5613 | Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations

Author(s)

Gilles Saint-Paul

Publication Date

03/04/2006

JEL Code(s)

  • J1, J22

Keyword(s)

  • Trade, comparative advantage, Genotypes, Gene-culture co-evolution

Programme Area(s)

  • Labour Economics

Abstract

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.