agents and official interventions. Our results revealed that the long-run relationship
of consumer credit (credit, income, wealth and rate on personal
loans) is asymmetric. While it is difficult to identify the direct sources of this
asymmetry, our intuition is that it is linked to the structural breaks in the rate
of personal loans encountered in the early 1980s. Moreover, we find no strong
evidence that much of the asymmetric impacts in consumer credit were experienced
in the Great recession. Neither have we attained evidence that asymmetric
impacts on credit demand are persistent over-time.