The February 24, 1997, Issue of Forbes Has an Article

question 14

Essay

The February 24, 1997, issue of Forbes has an article about a private Belgian utility company which is aggressively expanding its overseas holdings.Loosely quoting from Forbes, "At least one of the Belgian utility's foreign moves was inspired by game theory.Last year, the Belgian utility paid $141 million for 49% of a Hungarian power station.The firm's CEO figured that if French utilities threatened to dump cheap power into the Belgian market, he could retaliate by dumping cheap Hungarian power into France."
a.What is this CEO trying to accomplish?
b.What is necessary for this plan to be successful?

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