Setting up an internal market for food-banks, and “what should I donate to food banks”?
Here’s an interesting prospect; suppose you run a charity that distributes food collected from grocery stores or other major contributors? How would you do it? This was a question asked in a recent JEP(1) article, and, what surprised me more than the mechanism design (which was fairly straight forward) was some of the results that came to light after a market was implemented. If you’re more interested in what food banks value on the margin (ie. what should I donate to food ba
