“…Despite the plurality of articles that use VaR to measure the risk of different exchange rates, such as Zhan & Tian (2000), Wang et al (2010), Li et al (2007), among others, there are few studies that investigate the exchange rate risk of the brazilian real. Moreover, in the current scenario, in which the country has been facing several economic and political reforms in which the local currency has been showing strong volatility, the measurement of the risk of the real acquires a character of urgency, presenting, therefore, great importance.…”