Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5057959 Economics Letters 2016 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

•It is a sequential game that links endowment effect with natural property rights.•Natural property rights is jointly decided by endowment effect and relative contestability.•Abundant idle resources helps to secure natural property rights.•Third-party help is needed when the intruder significantly dominates in contestability.

This study develops a sequential game between the incumbent and the intruder to examine how endowment effect decides natural property rights of a territory without third-party intervention.

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