Wholesale Most-Favored-Nation Clauses and Third Degree Price Discrimination with Negative Consumption Externalities: A Duality Result

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Aviles Lucero
Keyword(s):  
Price Discrimination ◽  
Consumption Externalities ◽  
Most Favored Nation ◽  
Duality Result

Most-Favored-Nation Clauses and Monopsonistic Power: An Unhealthy Mix?

1989 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
Susan E. Stenger
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Price Discrimination ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Most Favored Nation ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Health Insurance Market ◽  
Health Insurance Industry

Most-favored-nations clauses appear in health insurance contracts allegedly to prevent price discrimination by health care providers among competing insurers. In fact, use of these provisions often works to exclude competitors from the health insurance market. This Note examines the antitrust implications of most-favored-nations clauses as used in the health insurance industry.

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