The endowment effect and the reference state: Evidence and manipulations

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Expectations as Endowments: Evidence on Reference-Dependent Preferences from Exchange and Valuation Experiments (2011, unknown): “Knetsch and Wong (2009) find exchange asymmetries in an experimental treatment in which they give subjects an item, but tell them they do not yet own the item (but will own it at the end of the session).”
A Reference Price Theory of the Endowment Effect (2012, background): “Our research builds on recent attempts to dissect loss aversion and better understand its role in the endowment effect (Ariely, Huber, and Wertenbroch 2005; Camerer 2005; Knetsch and Wong 2009; Novemsky and Kahneman 2005).”