Impact of a fixed price system on the supply of institutional long-term care: a comparative study of Japanese and German metropolitan areas

Table 6 Hypothesized and observed relationships between supply and cost/need relevant variables

*Explanatory variables*	*Dependent variables*
	Bed-density of IF Tokyo			Bed-density of PNH Tokyo		Bed-density of IF NRW
	Hypothesized	Result: overall	Result: change	Hypothesized	Result: overall	Hypothesized	Result: overall	Result: change
Costs/cost relevant
Average facility size	+	+	0	0	+	0	0	0
LTA land price	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
LTA wage	-	0	0	-	-	0	0	0
Need
LTA percent elderly needing LTC	0/-	-	0	+	+	+	+	0
LTA growth rate of elderly needing LTC	0/-	0	0	+	+	+	0	0

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