Research on the Coordinated Development of Global Urban Economic Competitiveness: Based on a Sample of 1007 Cities

Table 1

Explanatory indicators of the economic competitiveness of cities across the globe.

Categories of indicators	Indicators	Categories of indicators	Indicators
Financial services (FE)	Bank index	Operation cost (CC)	Loan interest rate
	Bank branches index		Tax to GDP ratio
	Exchange index		Per capita income/benchmark price
Technology innovation (TI)	Patent index	System environment (SE)	Convenience of doing business
	Research paper index		Level of economic freedom
Industry system (IS)	Production services business index	Infrastructure (IN)	Convenience of transportation
	Technology enterprise index		Broadband users
Human resources (HR)	Workforce population (15–59)	Living environment (LE)	The logarithm of the number of airlines and airport distance
	The proportion of youth population		PM 2.5
	College index		Crime rate
Local demand (LD)	Total disposable income