Research project
FIRSA
Research on how European regulators respond to financial innovation through sandboxes, policy learning, and institutional change.
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Alfredo Hernández Sánchez
I am a computational social scientist and applied policy researcher working on financial governance, regulatory experimentation, anti-corruption, and global political economy. I am currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie ERA Postdoctoral Fellow at Vilnius University and a Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies. Alongside research, I write technical tutorials on open-source software and analytical pieces on the global political economy.
My current project, FIRSA, examines how European regulators respond to financial innovation, with a focus on regulatory sandboxes, policy learning, and institutional change. I have also worked as a consultant on projects involving international organisations and policy-facing partners, and I have extensive teaching and training experience in quantitative methods, text analysis, data visualization, and open-source analytical tools across academic and policy settings.
Featured work
Research, open tools, and teaching resources.
Open data tool
Water Integrity Risk Index
An interactive tool for exploring water-sector integrity risks and comparing patterns across countries and indicators.
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Regulatory Sandbox Adoption in Europe
The paper looks at why regulatory sandboxes spread unevenly across Europe. It is part of my broader research on how governments experiment with fintech regulation.
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