This paper develops a model in which arbitrageurs are collectively unconstrained. Yet, they may prefer to incur individual limits of arbitrage rather than use their combined resources to capture every available arbitrage opportunity. Such deliberate limits to arbitrage arise because the...

We model the link between inequality and excessive risk taking. In the presence of increasing returns to tax avoidance, the middle class is willing to take non rewarded financial risk despite risk aversion. Electoral pressure may lead an incumbent politician to endorse this excessive risk taking...