One strand of his work investigates the impact of finance on macroeconomic dynamics in general equilibrium models. In this area of research he is particularly interested in understanding the appropriate design of financial institutions that induce aggregate growth, the drivers of non-monotonicities in the finance & development relationship and cross-country spillovers of financial risk. Another strand of his research concentrates on the interactions between finance and firm-level behavior with a focus to understand the empirical implications of financial development on firms’ investment, productivity growth and labor market behavior. Uras received his PhD in Economics from Washington University in St Louis and his BA from Bogazici University.