“…To sum up, although a variety of studies had already examined persistence in stock prices and bond yields using fractional integration techniques (see, e.g., Caporale et al, 2020Caporale et al 2022; Adekoya, 2021 ; Bala and Gupta, 2021 ), hardly any had considered the most recent period including the Covid-19 pandemic and examined whether its outbreak coincided with a change in persistence ( Štifanić et al, 2020 being one of the few exceptions, though providing relatively limited evidence for stock prices only using wavelet and network methods) – this is instead the focus of our analysis which, as explained above, produces the interesting result that the pandemic has had a significant impact on the stochastic behaviour of bond yields but not of stock prices.…”