Mini-symposium on the Shapley value: The 1997 paper by Frédéric Chantreuil and Alain Trannoy, and the 1999 paper by Anthony F. Shorrocks.

The article discusses the concept of Shapley value which is used for distributional analysis and inequality decomposition. It informs that author Tony Shorrocks was dissatisfied with various aspects of traditional inequality decomposition methods and wanted to know the link of various inequality factors with the marginal effect of those factors. It also informs the Shapley value formula was applied in the context of inequality and poverty measures.