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Learning from Regulatory Sandboxes

A Common Reporting Framework and Joint Thematic Calls for European Innovation Facilitators

Policy Paper

Fintech Regulation

Regulatory Sandboxes

A policy brief proposing a common reporting framework and joint thematic calls to help European authorities compare, share, and apply lessons from FinTech regulatory sandboxes.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

Regulatory Sandbox Adoption and Policy Instrument Choice in Europe

Working Paper

QCA

Regulatory Sandboxes

R

Preprint Manuscript (AOM) examining why fintech regulatory sandboxes spread unevenly across Europe.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

Deploy R Shiny Apps with Google Cloud Run

useR! 2026 Conference

Talks

Slides for the lightning talk: Deploy Shiny Apps with Google Cloud Run at the 2026 useR! Conference, Warsaw.

Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez

Google Cloud + Shiny Cheatsheet

A command-line workflow

Tutorials

A cheatsheet for deploying Shiny Apps via gcloud using the terminal.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

R Shiny and Google Cloud Run

Tutorial

This tutorial walks through a simple point-and-click workflow starting from a GitHub repository with an app.R and Dockerfile and then shows how to connect it to Cloud Run.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

Circumscribed Disruption

FinTech Narratives in Central Banking

Talks

Presentation slides for the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists: Integrity, Solidarity, and Unity: Hopes and Realities of the European Future held in Dublin, Ireland

Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez

Quantitative Text Analysis in the Age of LLMs - Recording

Talks

Recording

FIRSA Webinar Recording

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez, Seraphine F. Maerz, Bertrand De Longueville

Quantitative Text Analysis in the Age of LLMs

Talks

Slides for the FIRSA Webinar on Quantitative Text Analysis in the Age of LLMs.

Seraphine F. Maerz

Natural Language Processing vs Large Language Models

this is the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

Talks

Slides for the FIRSA Webinar on Quantitative Text Analysis in the Age of LLMs.

Bertrand De Longueville

Introduction to Computational Social Science Syllabus

Syllabus

Digital Methods

Python+

R

A lightweight early-warning prototype for fintech supervision that continuously scans open online sources to detect risk signals.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

Reactive Shiny Apps and Google Cloud Run

Workshops for Ukraine

Talks

Slides for the Webinar: Reactive Shiny Apps and Deployment with Google Cloud Run. Part of the Workshops for Ukraine initiative.

Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez

Building Dashboards with R Shiny - Recording

Talks

Recording

FIRSA Webinar Recording

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

Building Dashboards with R Shiny

Talks

Slides for the FIRSA Webinar on Building Research Dashboards with R and Shiny.

Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez

Seminar on Interaction Effects with R

An example with easytable

Talks

Slides for an in-house training session at TSMPI Vilnius University

Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez

Register for Building Research Dashboards with R and Shiny

webinar

R

Shiny

methods

Free online FIRSA webinar on 12 May 2026

Web scraping dynamic pages in R with Selenium

What to do when rvest is not enough

Tutorial

Webscraping

Selenium

R

A tutorial of browser automation in R with RSelenium and Firefox and a reproducible example.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

What Predicts Crypto Holding in Europe?

New evidence from the EU’s 2023 financial literacy survey

Working Paper

Cryptocurrencies

Financial Literacy

R

Preprint Manuscript (AOM) examining how financial literacy and overconfidence bias predict crypto-asset ownership in Europe.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

Financial Literacy and Crypto Asset Ownership

Evidence from Europe

Conference Slides

Cryptocurrencies

R

Presentation slides for the 2026 FIRSA Academic Roundtable on FinTech regulation.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

Narratives of FinTech: The Political Economy of Disruptive Discourse

Working Paper

Fintech Regulation

R

Preprint Manuscript (AOM) examining how central banks narrate FinTech disruption within a shared, circumscribed regulatory framework.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

Narratives of FinTech

The Political Economy of Disruptive Discourse

Conference Slides

Fintech Narratives

Python

R

Presentation slides for the 2025 Symposium for New Political Economy Special Issue on FinTech at the European University Institute, Florence.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

An Early Warning System for Fintech Supervision

Policy Paper

Fintech Regulation

Python

A lightweight early-warning prototype for fintech supervision that continuously scans open online sources to detect risk signals.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez

Example of Zero-Shot Classification for Political Texts

Python

Text Analysis

Google Colab

Tutorial

Data Visualization

Zero-shot classification is a natural language processing (NLP) technique that allows a model to assign labels to text without being explicitly trained on those labels.

Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez

Named Entity Recognition in R

Tutorial

A tutorial for applying Named Entity Recognition in R with the reticulate package.

Alfredo Hernández Sánchez