Tukiainen, J., Blesse, S., Bohne, A., Giuffrida, L. M., Jääskeläinen, J., Luukinen, A. and A. Sieppi (forthcoming). What Are the Priorities of Bureaucrats? Evidence from Conjoint Experiments with Procurement Officials. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (Latest Working Paper Version, ZEW DP).
Blesse, S. (forthcoming). Do your tax problems make tax evasion seem more justifiable? Evidence from a survey experiment, European Journal of Political Economy (Accepted version, older version: ZEW Discussion Paper No. 40).
Alpino, M., Asatryan, Z., Blesse, S., and N. Wehrhöfer (2022). Austerity and distributional policy. Journal of Monetary Economics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2022.07.006 (Journal Article, Latest Working Paper Version Cesifo WP)
Blesse, S., Bordignon, M., Boyer, P. C., Carapella, P., Heinemann, F., Janeba, E. and A. Raj (2020). European Fiscal Reform Preferences of Parliamentarians in France, Germany, and Italy. European Union Politics, doi:10.1177/14651165221098541.
Blesse, S. und A. Diegmann (2022). The Place-Based Effects of Police Stations on Crime: Evidence from Station Closures, Journal of Public Economics, 207, 104605. (Accepted Version)
Blesse, S. and F. Heinemann (2020). Citizens’ trade-offs in state merger decisions: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment, in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 180 (2020), 438-471. (Journal Article, Previous Working Paper Version)
Blesse, S., Havlik, A. and F. Heinemann (2020). Euro Area reform preferences of Central and Eastern European economic experts, in: Empirica, Journal of European Integration, 1-25. (Journal Article, Working Paper Version)
Blesse, S., Boyer, P., Heinemann, F., Janeba, E. and A. Raj (2019). European Monetary Union reform preferences of French and German parliamentarians, in: European Union Politics, Vol. 20 (3), 406-424. (Journal Article, Working Paper Version)
Blesse, S. and F. Rösel (2019). Merging county administrations — Cross–national evidence of fiscal and political effects, in: Local Government Studies, Vol. 45 (5), 611-631. (Journal Article, Working Paper Version)
Blesse, S., Dörrenberg, P. and A. Rauch (2019). Higher taxes on less elastic goods? Evidence from German municipalities, in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 75(1), 165-186. (Journal Article, Working Paper Version)
Blesse, S., Boyer, P., Heinemann, F., Janeba, E. and A. Raj (2017). Intégration européenne et politiques du marché du travail: Quel consensus entre parlementaires français et allemands?, in: Revue d’Economie Politique, Vol. 127 (5), 737-759. (Journal Article, Working Paper Version)
Blesse, S. and T. Baskaran (2016). Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German reform, in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 56, 54-74. (Journal Article, Working Paper Version)
Reingewertz, Y., Blesse, S., Baskaran, T. and A. Brender (2016). Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel, in: European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 42, 1-16. (Journal Article, Working Paper ZEW, Working Paper Cege)
Ambuehl, S., Blesse, S., Doerrenberg, P., Feldhaus, C. and A. Ockenfels (2023). Politicians' Social Welfare Criteria: An Experiment with German Legislators, ifo Working Paper No. 391 (CESifo Working Paper, ZEW Working Paper, Conditionally Accepted Economic Journal)
Blesse, S. and T. Baskaran (2018). Administrative border changes and economic growth: Evidence from Africa, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 27. (Latest Working Paper Version, Revise and Resubmit Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics)
Blesse, S., Dorn, F. and M. Lay (2023). Do fiscal rules undermine public investments? A review of the empirical literature, ifo Working Paper No. 393, current version (Revise and Resubmit European Journal of Political Economy).
Blesse, S., Buhlmann, F. and P. Dörrenberg (2019). Do people really want a simple tax system? Evidence on preferences towards income tax simplification, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 58. (Latest Version, Accepted Economica)
Arntz, M., Blesse, S. and P. Doerrenberg (2022). The End of Work Feels Near. How Do People Perceive the Impact of Digital Technologies and Automation? (ZEW Discussion Paper No. 36, Revise and Resubmit Labour Economics).
Blesse, S., Lergetporer, P., Nover, N. and K. Werner (2023). Transparency and Policy Competition: Experimental Evidence from German Citizens and Politicians, CESifo Working Paper No. 10292 (CRC TRR Working paper, ifo Working Paper, ZEW Discussion paper, submitted).
Blesse, S., Rostam-Afschar, D., Heil, P. and F. Buhlmann (2025). Local Policy Misperceptions and Investment: Experimental Evidence from Firm Decision Makers, Report (CESifo Discussion Paper, ZEW Discussion Paper, IZA Discussion paper, submitted)
Trade-offs in policy making: Economists’ vs. peoples’ beliefs (joint with Sarah Necker, Andreas Peichl, Lisa Windsteiger and Mathias Dolls)
Do we need someone to explain economics? Evidence from information acquisition (joint with Henning Hermes, Klaus Gruendler and Philipp Heil)
Taxing travellers: Evidence from quasi experimental variation (joint with Valentin Kissmann and Jan Kemper)
When Science Challenges Beliefs: Experimental Evidence on the Erosion of Trust in Science(with Philipp Lergetporer and Ülkü Bıçakçı)
Eliciting preferences over subsidy take-up and efficiency (with Sarah Necker)
How do politicians weigh scientific evidence and public opinion? (with Philipp Lergetporer, Clara-Marie Pache and Helen Zeidler)
Exposure to millitary conflict and political preferences: Evidenced from a Survey Experiment (with Philipp Lergetporer, Clara-Marie Pache and Helen Zeidler)
Beliefs and Preferences over Information Provision (with Philipp Lergetporer, Clara-Marie Pache and Helen Zeidler)
The (Ir)relevance of Administrative Proliferation: Evidence from Foreigner's Advisor Councils (with Andre Diegmann, Zohal Hessami and Clara Wobbe)
Blesse, S. and J. Nover (2025). Zustimmung oder Skepsis? Bevölkerungseinstellungen zur Schuldenbremse in Deutschland über die Zeit, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, https://doi.org/10.1515/pwp-2025-0005.
Blesse, S., Heinemann, F., Janeba, E. and J. Nover (2021), Die Zukunft der Schuldenbremse nach der Pandemie: Einsichten aus einer Befragung aller 16 Landesparlamente, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, Vol. 70(1), 1-16.
Berger, M., Blesse, S., Heinemann, F. and E. Janeba (2017). Förderalismuspräferenzen in der deutschen Bevölkerung, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Vol. 18 (2), 145-158. (Journal Article)
Blesse, S. and F. Rösel (2017). Was bringen kommunale Gebietsreformen? Kausale Evidenz zu Hoffnungen, Risiken und alternativen Instrumenten, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Vol. 18(4), 307-324. (Journal Article, Working Paper Version)