Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2018 355 Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Technical efficiencies of Indonesian regional and non-regional banks pre- and post-financial crisis Nury Effendi, Maman Setiawan* and Rina Indiastuti Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Padjadjaran, Jl. Dipati Ukur No. 35, Bandung 40132, Jawa Barat, Indonesia Email: nury.effendi@unpad.ac.id Email: maman.setiawan@unpad.ac.id Email: rina.indiastuti@unpad.ac.id *Corresponding author Abstract: This research investigates technical efficiencies of Indonesian banks operating regionally and nationally pre- and post-financial crisis in 2008. The data envelopment analysis (DEA) with bootstrapping approach is applied to estimate the technical efficiency. This study uses 119 banks listed in the Indonesian Central Bank of Indonesia and Financial Service Authority (OJK) with period from 2005 to 2014. Following the role of the banks, the technical efficiency is estimated using an intermediation approach. The results show that the banks are technically inefficient, on average. Overall, the average technical efficiency of the regional banks is lower than the non-regional banks. Also, there are significant differences of the technical efficiencies of the regional, non-regional and all banks between pre and post-financial crisis. Further, the differences of the technical efficiencies between regional and non-regional banks are significant only in all periods and post-financial crisis. In addition, the regional banks operating in the Java islands have higher average technical efficiency compared to the regional banks operating outside the Java island, although the difference is only significant in the period before the financial crisis. Keywords: technical efficiency; bootstraping approach; regional banks; non-regional banks; pre- and post-financial crisis. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Effendi, N., Setiawan, M. and Indiastuti, R. (2018) ‘Technical efficiencies of Indonesian regional and non-regional banks pre- and post-financial crisis’, Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp.355–366. Biographical notes: Nury Effendi is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Padjadjaran, Indonesia. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Center for Economics and Development Studies (CEDS) at the same university. He received his PhD from the Oklahoma University, USA. His research interests focus on finance, macro-microeconomics links, SMEs’ performances, and econometrics.