Most-favored-nation clauses in commercial contracts: legal and economic analysis and proposal for a guideline

Potential anticompetitive effects of most favored nation contract clauses in managed care and health insurance contracts.

Assessing the Effects of Most-favored Nation Clauses

Most-favored-nation (MFN) clauses and similar vertical restraints are frequently the object of legal and economic scrutiny. Typically, MFN clauses provide that one party to a contract will grant the other terms that are at least as favorable as those granted to any other party. MFNs are frequently found in industries with complex distribution chains. Some of the most prominent investigations in...

A competitive analysis of most favored nations clauses in contracts between health care providers and insurers.

A most favored nations (MFN) clause is a contractual agreement between a buyer and a seller stating that the price paid by the buyer will be at least as low as the price paid by other buyers who purchase the same commodities from the seller. During the past decade the anticompetitive impact of MFN clauses in the health care industry has been challenged under federal antitrust laws. The cases ha...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

a contrastive analysis of concord and head parameter in english and azerbaijani

این پایان نامه به بررسی و مقایسه دو موضوع مطابقه میان فعل و فاعل (از نظر شخص و مشار) و هسته عبارت در دو زبان انگلیسی و آذربایجانی می پردازد. اول رابطه دستوری مطابقه مورد بررسی قرار می گیرد. مطابقه به این معناست که فعل مفرد به همراه فاعل مفرد و فعل جمع به همراه فاعل جمع می آید. در انگلیسی تمام افعال، بجز فعل بودن (to be) از نظر شمار با فاعلشان فقط در سوم شخص مفرد و در زمان حال مطابقت نشان میدهند...