To analyze the causal relationship between the stock return volatility and the output growth volatility along with different business cycles. This paper develops a special framework where the volatility obtained through GARCH family models combines with the threshold variable represented by MCDR (the negative modified current business depth of recession) in order to estimate the five-variate threshold vector autoregressive model. With monthly data, it is found that the interaction, within two regimes, between output growth rate volatility and stock return volatility is significant in most countries and that two kinds of uni-directional causal relationship are asymmetric under expansion period. Further, it is found that the volatility of money supply and of interest rate also have explanatory power over the fluctuation of stock return. These findings are quite different from arguments of Schwert (1989).