Most Favoured Nation Clauses:

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...

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

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...

Octasubstituted biphenylenes: is there a favoured conformation?

Octakis(pyrazol-1-ylmethyl)biphenylene ethanol solvate, C(44)H(40)N(16) x C(2)H(6)O, has two independent centrosymmetric molecules, one of which is hydrogen bonded to the solvent molecule. One molecule adopts an arrangement with three arms up and one down in each benzene ring, whilst the other molecule has a conformation with two adjacent arms on the same side of the ring. In neither case is th...

Labelled Clauses

We add labels to first-order clauses to simultaneously apply superpositions to several proof obligations inside one clause set. From a theoretical perspective, the approach unifies a variety of deduction modes. These include different strategies such as set of support, as well as explicit case analysis, e.g., splitting. From a practical perspective, labelled clauses offer advantages in the case...