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Baltic Rim Economies Quarterly Review

May 2013

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Erkki Laukkanen

In this article, I focus to Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.1 The question is, how do these countries differ regarding detected corruption, i.e. detected by people on these countries. I apply data from Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) to engineer a new integrity index (II) based on the perceptions of the citizens to cover the period from 2004 to 2010. Then I compare the results of II to results of CPI, Corruption Perception Index, and finally I shortly comment the differences.

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