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Dr. Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez

Postdoctoral Researcher
Research areas
Political Economy
International Relations
Additional info
alhdzsz@gmail.com

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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez holds a PhD in Political Science, with a specialization in Political Economy, from the Central European University. His research interests include Computational Social Sciences, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and International Political Economy. He is currently working on measuring corruption through large-scale administrative data sets (Big Data) and the political economy of Financial Technologies (FinTech) in Europe. His research has been published in edited volumes by Springer, Bloomsbury and Emerald. He also works on policy papers and evaluations with several organizations such as UNESCO, Transparency International, and the IADB.

Membership of international organisations, editorial boards, international working groups, etc. 

Institute for New Economic Thinking Young Scholars Initiative (INET-YSI)

Research projects and grants

Political Economy of Fintech, Postdoctoral Researcher

Conference papers

  • “Water Integrity Risk Index”, 6th Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network Conference (Bologna, Italy) “Transparency in nursing home services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain” 28th International Conference of Europeanists (Lisbon, Portugal)
  • ”Transparency in nursing home services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain” 80th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference (Chicago, Online)
  • “Water Integrity Risk Index” Second International Conference on Water, Megacities and Global Change, UNESCO (Paris, Online).
  • “Water Integrity Risk Index” World Water Week 2022, Stockholm International Water Institute (Online)

Research interests

FinTech

International Political Economy

Big Data

Quantitative Text Analysis

Publications

Adam, Isabelle; Fazekas, Mihály; Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo; Horn, Peter & Regös, Nóra.2023.Integrity Dividends: Procurement in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean.IDB Technical Note 2608 Perez Duran, Ixchel

Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo.2021.Transparency in nursing home services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.Revista Española De Ciencia Política,57:77-109 Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo

Fazekas, Mihaly.2021.Emergency Procurement: The Role of Big Open Data.In: S. Arrowsmith, L. Butler, A. L. Chimia and C. Yukins (eds.).Public Procurement in (a) Crisis: global lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.Hart Publishing.Enlace Czibik, Ágnes; Fazekas, Mihály

Hernandez Sanchez, Alfredo; Wachs, Johannes.2021.Networked Corruption Risks in European Defense Procurement.In: Granados O.M., Nicolás-Carlock J.R. (eds).Corruption Networks. Concepts and Applications.Springer. Ortrun Merkle, Umrbek Allakulov , Debora Gonzalez, Alfredo Hernández Sánchez, When vulnerabilities are exploited – the role of sextortion in the WASH sector in Bangladesh, Frontiers in Water (accepted, pending publication).